Methylation profile of DNA repetitive elements in human testicular germ cell tumor

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 711-722

  Ushida, Hiroshi ^a   Kawakami, Takahiro ^a   Minami, Kahori ^a   Chano, Tokuhiro ^a   Okabe, Hidetoshi ^a   Okada, Yusaku ^a   Okamoto, Keisei ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alu; DNA repetitive elements; Epigenetics; LINE1; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; REPETITIVE DNA; UVOMORULIN;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; EPIGENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LINE1 REPEAT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TESTIS;

ADULT; AGED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA, EMBRYONAL; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861483398     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: 10982744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mc.20831     Document Type: Article

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