Demethylation of the region around exon 2 of MLH1 gene in gastrointestinal cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4861-4864

  Tang, Yanping ^a   Liu, Cong ^a   Wang, Xiyin ^a   Liu, Dong ^a   Ingvarsson, Sigurdur ^b   Chen, Huiping ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Alu element; Exon 2; Gastrointestinal cancer; Methylation; MLH1

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BISULFITE GENOMIC SEQUENCING; BRAIN REGION; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA; STOMACH MUCOSA;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; EXONS; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84872661392     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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