Promoter methylation in the PTCH gene in cervical epithelial cancer and ovarian cancer tissue as studied by eight novel Pyrosequencing® assays

International Journal of Oncology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 685-692

  Löf Öhlin, Zarah M ^a   Levanat, Sonja ^b   Sabol, Maja ^b   Sorbe, Bengt ^a   Nilsson, Torbjörn K ^a,c  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CpG sites; DNA methylation; Hedgehog pathway; Pyrosequencing technology

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PATCHED;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BASE SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE FREQUENCY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79952010237     PISSN: 10196439     EISSN: 17912423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2011.895     Document Type: Article

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