Microsatellite instability and MLH1 hypermethylation - Incidence and significance in colorectal polyps in young patients

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 521-526

  Koh, D C ^a,d   Luchtefeld, M A ^a   Kim, D G ^a   Attal, H ^b   Monroe, T ^c   Ingersoll, K ^c  

^a Ferguson Clinic   (United States)

^b SPECTRUM HEALTH   (United States)

^c Spectrum Health ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Colorectal polyp; Methylation; Microsatellite instability; MLH1

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN MLH1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIGENETICS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM POLYP; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VILLOUS ADENOMA;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 34250783589     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01175.x     Document Type: Article

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