Concerted promoter hypermethylation of hMLHI, p16INK4A, and E-cadherin in gastric carcinomas with microsatellite instability

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-31

  Kim, Hyunki ^a   Kim, Yun Hee ^a   Kim, Sung Eun ^a   Kim, Nam Gyun ^a   Noh, Sung Hoon ^a   Kim, Hoguen ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CpG island methylator phenotype; E cadherin; Gastric carcinoma; hMLHI; Microsatellite instability; p16INK4A

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN P16; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

CADHERINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENES, P16; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGASES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VON HIPPEL-LINDAU TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

EID: 0038325528     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.1325     Document Type: Review

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