Subtelomeric DNA methylation and telomere length in human cancer cells

Cancer Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-91

  Lee, Myung Eun ^a   Rha, Sun Young ^a,b   Jeung, Hei Cheul ^a,b   Chung, Hyun Cheol ^a,b   Oh, Bong Kyeong ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cancer cell; DNA methylation; Heterochromatin; Subtelomere; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GENETICS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATOMA CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFITES; TELOMERE;

EID: 67349268468     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2009.02.031     Document Type: Article

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