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Differential targets of CpG island hypermethylation in primary and metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jan 2003
Smiraglia D J, Smith L T, Lang J C, Rush L J, Dai Z, Schuller D E, Plass C
Abstract excerpt
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) often metastasise to the cervical lymph nodes. It is known for HNSCC as well as other cancers that progression from normal tissue to primary tumour and finally to metastatic tumour is characterised by an accumulation of genetic mutations. DNA methylation, an epigenetic modification, can result in loss of gene function in cancer, similar to genetic mutations such as...
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