HOX gene methylation status analysis in patients with hereditary breast cancer

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-53

  Pilato, Brunella ^a   Pinto, Rosamaria ^a   De Summa, Simona ^a   Lambo, Rossana ^a   Paradiso, Angelo ^a   Tommasi, Stefania ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE GIOVANNI PAOLO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

BRCA1; BRCA2; Familial breast cancer; HOX genes

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1BETA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P53; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXB13; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER STEM CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COUNSELING; GROWTH; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOX GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MALE; OVARY CANCER; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2;

EID: 84873045811     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: 1435232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2012.118     Document Type: Article

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