Patterns of DNA methylation in individual colonic crypts reveal aging and cancer-related field defects in the morphologically normal mucosa

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1158-1163

  Belshaw, Nigel J ^a   Pal, Nandita ^b   Tapp, Henri S ^a   Dainty, Jack R ^a   Lewis, Michael P N ^b   Williams, Mark R ^c   Lund, Elizabeth K ^a   Johnson, Ian T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; DNA; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 1; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 2; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 5; WNT PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON MUCOSA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE CRYPT; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; COLON TUMOR; GENETICS; INTESTINE MUCOSA; PATHOLOGY;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA;

EID: 77953942118     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgq077     Document Type: Article

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