MLH1 Promoter Methylation Frequency in Colorectal Cancer Patients and Related Clinicopathological and Molecular Features

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Li, Xia ^a   Yao, Xiaoping ^a   Wang, Yibaina ^a   Hu, Fulan ^a   Wang, Fan ^a   Jiang, Liying ^a   Liu, Yupeng ^a   Wang, Da ^a   Sun, Guizhi ^a   Zhao, Yashuang ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; PROTEIN MLH1;

BRAF GENE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA METHYLATION; GENDER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MLH1 GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SPORADIC COLORECTAL CANCER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUTATION; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; PUBLICATION BIAS; RAS PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84875551747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059064     Document Type: Review

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