DNA methyltransferase expression and DNA methylation of CPG islands and peri-centromeric satellite regions in human colorectal and stomach cancers

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 205-212

  Kanai, Yae ^a   Ushijima, Saori ^a   Kondo, Yutaka ^a   Nakanishi, Yukihiro ^a   Hirohashi, Setsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer specific methylation; Carcinogenesis; Centromeric instability; CpG island methylator phenotype; DNA methylation; DNMT1; DNMT2; DNMT3b

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; SATELLITE DNA; THROMBOSPONDIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CENTROMERE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTROMERE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, MESSENGER; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035863455     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0215(200002)9999:9999<::AID-IJC1040>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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