DNA hypermethylation is a mechanism for loss of expression of HLA class I genes in human esophageal squamous cell carcinomas

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1615-1623

  Nie, Yan ^a   Yang, Guang Yu ^a   Song, Yunlong ^a,b   Zhao, Xin ^a,b   So, Chi ^a   Liao, Jie ^a   Wang, Li Dong ^b   Yang, Chung S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; DNA; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P21;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL SURFACE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CPG ISLAND; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MARKER GENE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0034794672     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/22.10.1615     Document Type: Article

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