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Concurrent hypermethylation of gene promoters is associated with a MSI-H phenotype and diploidy in gastric carcinomas.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 Jun 2003
Carvalho B, Pinto M, Cirnes L, Oliveira C, Machado J C, Suriano G, Hamelin R, Carneiro F, Seruca R
Abstract excerpt
Changes in the pattern of DNA methylation are among the most common alterations observed in human cancers, such as gastric carcinomas. We analysed in a series of 51 sporadic gastric carcinomas the methylation status of the promoter regions of the hMLH1, CDH1, MGMT and COX2 genes. We aimed to determine the frequency of CpG island hypermethylation and to find out whether the occurrence of concurrent...
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