Identification of differential methylation of the WT1 antisense regulatory region and relaxation of imprinting in Wilms' tumor

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2356-2360

  Malik, Karim ^a   Salpekar, Ashreena ^b   Hancock, Anne ^b   Moorwood, Kim ^b   Jackson, Sally ^b   Charles, Adrian ^b   Brown, Keith W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 11P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALLELES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CPG ISLANDS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INTRONS; KIDNEY; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WILMS TUMOR; WT1 PROTEINS;

EID: 0034194238     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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