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Hypermethylation of the prostacyclin synthase (PTGIS) promoter is a frequent event in colorectal cancer and associated with aneuploidy.
Oncogene - 10 Nov 2005
Frigola Jordi, Muñoz Mar, Clark Susan J, Moreno Victor, Capellà Gabriel, Peinado Miguel A
Abstract excerpt
Inactivation of specific tumor suppressor genes by transcriptional silencing associated with hypermethylation of the promoter is a common event in cancer. We have applied the amplification of intermethylated sites (AIMS) technique to a 100 human colorectal cancers and seven cell lines to identify...
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