Frequent loss of hMLH1 by promoter hypermethylation leads to microsatellite instability in adenomatous polyps of patients with a single first-degree member affected by colon cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 787-792

  Ricciardiello, Luigi ^a   Goel, Ajay ^a   Mantovani, Vilma ^a   Fiorini, Tania ^a   Fossi, Stefania ^a   Chang, Dong K ^a   Lunedei, Veronica ^a   Pozzato, Paolo ^a   Zagari, Rocco M ^a   De Luca, Luca ^a   Fuccio, Lorenzo ^a   Martinelli, Giuseppe N ^a   Roda, Enrico ^a   Boland, C Richard ^a   Bazzoli, Franco ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN MBD4; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHYLATION; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

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