Frequent epigenetic silencing of the FHIT gene in penile squamous cell carcinomas

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 452, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-382

  Yanagawa, Naoki ^a   Osakabe, Mitsumasa ^a   Hayashi, Masahiro ^a   Tamura, Gen ^b   Motoyama, Teiichi ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

FHIT; Methylation HPV; Penile carcinoma

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE HISTIDINE TRIAD PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CPG ISLAND; DAPK GENE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FHIT GENE; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MALE; MGMT GENE; P14 GENE; PENIS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAR BETA GENE; RASSF1A GENE; RUNX3 GENE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

ACID ANHYDRIDE HYDROLASES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 3 SUBUNIT; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PENILE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 41049094558     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-008-0597-6     Document Type: Article

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