Frequent aberrant methylation of the CDH4 gene promoter in human colorectal and gastric cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 64, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 8156-8159

  Miotto, Elena ^a,b   Sabbioni, Silvia ^a   Veronese, Angelo ^b   Calin, George A ^c   Gullini, Sergio ^d   Liboni, Alberto ^a   Gramantieri, Laura ^e   Bolondi, Luigi ^e   Ferrazzi, Eros ^f   Gafà, Roberta ^a   Lanza, Giovanni ^a   Negrini, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f Ospedale S Maria della Misericordia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; CADHERIN; R CADHERIN; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; METHYLATION; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 8544261148     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-04-3000     Document Type: Article

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