DNA methylation profiles of female steroid hormone-driven human malignancies

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 310, Issue , 2006, Pages 141-178

  Campan, M ^a   Weisenberger, D J ^a   Laird, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; ARF PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN MLH1; RAS ASSOCIATION DOMAIN FAMILY PROTEIN 1A; SEX HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MLH1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; COLON CANCER; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR GROWTH; BREAST TUMOR; COLON TUMOR; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; OVARY TUMOR; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENES, P16; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 33748107028     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31181-5_8     Document Type: Review

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