Differential methylation of the OCT3/4 upstream region in primary human testicular germ cell tumors

Oncology Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-132

  De Jong, Jeroen ^a   Weeda, Sannah ^a   Gillis, Ad J M ^a   Oosterhuis, J Wolter ^a   Looijenga, Leendert H J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embryonal carcinoma; Germ cell tumor; JKT 1; Methylation; OCT3 4; Promoter; Seminoma

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SEMINOMA; TERATOMA; TESTIS; TESTIS TUMOR; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, EMBRYONAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINOMA; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34547883568     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.18.1.127     Document Type: Article

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