Gene-promoter hypermethylation as a biomarker in lung cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 707-717

  Belinsky, Steven A ^a  

^a LOVELACE RESPIRATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CASPASE 8; DEATH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN KINASE; FAS ANTIGEN; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; UVOMORULIN; TUMOR MARKER;

APOPTOSIS; BODY FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CDKN2A GENE; CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHFR GENE; DISEASE MARKER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; ONCOGENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; BIOASSAY; DISEASE COURSE; GENETICS; LUNG TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 4544250024     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1432     Document Type: Review

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