Methylation of the hMLH1 promoter but no hMLH1 mutations in sporadic gastric carcinomas with high-level microsatellite instability

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 200-203

  Bevilacqua, Roberta A U ^a   Simpson, Andrew J G ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034661742     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0215(20000715)87:2<200::AID-IJC7>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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