DNA methylation analysis of the promoter region of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 6087-6090

  Devereux, Theodora R ^a   Horikawa, Izumi ^a   Anna, Colleen H ^a   Annab, Lois A ^a   Afshari, Cynthia A ^a   Barrett, J Carl ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; DEACETYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA; SULFITES; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033572577     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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