Frequent promoter hypermethylation and expression reduction of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in breast tumors

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 851-859

  Nesset, Kirsten A ^a   Perri, Ami M ^a   Mueller, Christopher R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Glucocorticoid receptor; GR; Methylation; Stress

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA, HUMAN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR GENE; HOMOGENATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; EXON; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84899477040     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.28484     Document Type: Article

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