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Methylation levels of the "long interspersed nucleotide element-1" repetitive sequences predict survival of melanoma patients
26 May 2011
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BACKGROUND: The prognosis of cutaneous melanoma (CM) differs for patients with identical clinico-pathological stage, and no molecular markers discriminating the prognosis of stage III individuals have been established. Genome-wide alterations in DNA methylation are a common event in cancer. This study aimed to define the prognostic value of genomic DNA methylation levels in stage III CM patients. METHODS: Overall...
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