TWIST1 hypermethylation is observed frequently in colorectal tumors and its overexpression is associated with unfavorable outcomes in patients with colorectal cancer

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 452-462

  Okada, Toshiyuki ^a   Suehiro, Yutaka ^a   Ueno, Koji ^a   Mitomori, Shoko ^a   Kaneko, Sayaka ^a   Nishioka, Mitsuaki ^a   Okayama, Naoko ^a   Sakai, Kouhei ^a   Higaki, Shingo ^a   Hazama, Shoichi ^a   Hirata, Hiroshi ^b   Sakaida, Isao ^a   Oka, Masaaki ^a   Hinoda, Yuji ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ARTICLE; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AZACITIDINE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 77950680545     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20755     Document Type: Article

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