Global DNA hypomethylation in intratubular germ cell neoplasia and seminoma, but not in nonseminomatous male germ cell tumors

Modern Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1337-1344

  Netto, Georges J ^a   Nakai, Yasutomo ^b   Nakayama, Masashi ^b   Jadallah, Sana ^a   Toubaji, Antoun ^a   Nonomura, Norio ^b   Albadine, Roula ^a   Hicks, Jessica L ^a   Epstein, Jonathan I ^a,c   Yegnasubramanian, Srinivasan ^a,c   Nelson, William G ^a,c   De Marzo, Angelo M ^a,c  

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

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global methylation; IGCNU; Nonseminomatous germ cell tumors; Seminoma

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRATUBULAR GERM CELL NEOPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINOMA; TESTIS TUMOR;

EID: 57749105455     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2008.127     Document Type: Article

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