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Quantitative Detection of Promoter Hypermethylation in Multiple Genes in the Serum of Patients with Colorectal Cancer
23 Sept 2005
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: While promoter hypermethylation is a common molecular alteration of human colorectal cancer that could be detected in the bloodstream, we tested the feasibility of quantitative detection of aberrant DNA methylation in multiple genes in the serum samples of colorectal cancer patients. METHODS: The pre-therapeutic serum samples of 49 colorectal cancer patients and 41 age-matched controls with normal...
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