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Demethylation of MAGE promoters during gastric cancer progression
1 Feb 2004
Abstract excerpt
Melanoma antigen (MAGE)-encoding genes are expressed in various tumour types via demethylation of their promoter CpG islands, which are silent in all non-neoplastic tissues except for the testis and placenta. The clinicopathological significance of demethylation of MAGE genes in gastric carcinoma is not known. We investigated the promoter methylation status of MAGE-A1 and -A3 in 10 gastric cancer cell lines and...
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