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Integrated profiling reveals a global correlation between epigenetic and genetic alterations in mesothelioma.
Cancer research - 15 Jul 2010
Christensen Brock C, Houseman E Andres, Poage Graham M, Godleski John J, Bueno Raphael, Sugarbaker David J, Wiencke John K, Nelson Heather H, Marsit Carmen J, Kelsey Karl T
Abstract excerpt
Development of mesothelioma is linked mainly to asbestos exposure, but the combined contributions of genetic and epigenetic alterations are unclear. We investigated the potential relationships between gene copy number (CN) alterations and DNA methylation profiles in a case series of pleural mesotheliomas (n = 23). There were no instances of significantly correlated CN alteration and methylation at probed loci,...
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