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Methylation of the CDH1 promoter as the second genetic hit in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer.
Nature genetics - 1 Sept 2000
Grady W M, Willis J, Guilford P J, Dunbier A K, Toro T T, Lynch H, Wiesner G, Ferguson K, Eng C, Park J G, Kim S J, Markowitz S
Abstract excerpt
Aberrant promoter methylation and the associated loss of gene expression is a common accompaniment of human cancers. Nonetheless, it has been challenging to demonstrate in any given tumour that methylation of a specific gene was causal and not consequent to malignant transformation. In this regard, our attention was drawn to the genesis of gastric cancers in individuals with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer...
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