Redundant DNA methylation in colorectal cancers of lynch-syndrome patients

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 906-914

  Alemayehu, Aster ^a   Sebova, Katarina ^a   Fridrichova, Ivana ^a  

^a CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MLH1 GENE; MLH2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 50249188284     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20586     Document Type: Article

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