DNA methylation and field cancerization

Epigenomics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 243-245

  Ramachandran, Kavitha ^a   Singal, Rakesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

carcinogenesis; DNA methylation; epigenetics; field effects; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BETEL NUT; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EPIGENETICS; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOXA9 GENE; HUMAN; IL1BETA GENE; LIFESTYLE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NONHUMAN; NOS2 GENE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH CANCER;

CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84862259579     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.12.12     Document Type: Editorial

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