Methylation of the TWIST1 promoter, TWIST1 mRNA levels, and immunohistochemical expression of TWIST1 in breast cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3325-3330

  Gort, Eelke H ^a   Suijkerbuijk, Karijn P M ^a   Roothaan, Suzan M ^a   Raman, Venu ^b   Vooijs, Marc ^a   Van Der Wall, Elsken ^a   Van Diest, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 57449112113     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0472     Document Type: Article

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