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Hypermethylation of the promoter region of the E-cadherin gene (CDH1) in sporadic and ulcerative colitis associated colorectal cancer.
Gut - 1 Mar 2001
Wheeler J M, Kim H C, Efstathiou J A, Ilyas M, Mortensen N J, Bodmer W F
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BACKGROUND: Ulcerative colitis associated colorectal cancer (UCACRC) has several distinctive clinicopathological and genetic features which differ from sporadic colorectal cancer (SCRC). Hypermethylation of the E-cadherin gene (CDH1) has not been described previously in colorectal cancer. AIMS: A panel of SCRC and UCACRC were investigated for mutations in CDH1, and for hypermethylation of the promoter region of...
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