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DNA methylation changes in ex-adenoma carcinoma of the large intestine.
Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology - 1 Oct 2010
Kwon Hyeong-Ju, Kim Jung Ho, Bae Jeong Mo, Cho Nam-Yun, Kim Tae-You, Kang Gyeong Hoon
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Ex-adenoma carcinoma (EAC) is a carcinoma with contiguous adenoma element in its vicinity which provides a morphological evidence for adenoma-carcinoma sequence. During multistep colorectal carcinogenesis, promoter CpG island hypermethylation has been known to increase in a stepwise manner whereas diffuse genomic hypomethylation has been known to be an early event and not progress. However, some controversies...
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