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Molecular pathological epidemiology of colorectal neoplasia: an emerging transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary field.
Gut - 1 Mar 2011
Ogino Shuji, Chan Andrew T, Fuchs Charles S, Giovannucci Edward
Abstract excerpt
Colorectal cancer is a complex disease resulting from somatic genetic and epigenetic alterations, including locus-specific CpG island methylation and global DNA or LINE-1 hypomethylation. Global molecular characteristics such as microsatellite instability (MSI), CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP), global DNA hypomethylation, and chromosomal instability cause alterations of gene function on a genome-wide...
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