Improvement of the methylation specific PCR technical conditions for the detection of p16 promoter hypermethylation in small amounts of tumor DNA

Oncology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 181-183

  Fan, X ^a   Inda, M M ^a   Tunon T ^b   Castresana, Javier S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b Universidad Pública de Navarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Methylation specific PCR; p16; PNET; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA; PROTEIN P16; SULFITE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; DNA METHYLATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SPERMATOZOON; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN P16; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SPERMATOZOA; SULFITES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0036133873     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.9.1.181     Document Type: Article

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