The polycomb group protein EZH2 is involved in progression of prostate cancer

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6907, 2002, Pages 624-629

  Varambally, Sooryanarayana ^a   Dhanasekaran, Saravana M ^a   Zhou, Ming ^a   Barrette, Terrence R ^a   Kumar Sinha, Chandan ^a   Sanda, Martin G ^a   Ghosh, Debashis ^a   Pienta, Kenneth J ^a   Sewalt, Richard G A B ^b   Rubin, Mark A ^a   Chinnaiyan, Arul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CELLS; HORMONES; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOLOGY; SURGERY; TUMORS;

PROLIFERATION;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN; PROTEIN EZH2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 18644382388     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01075     Document Type: Article

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