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Quantitative methylation analysis reveals gender and age differences in p16<scp>INK</scp>4a hypermethylation in hepatitis B virus‐related hepatocellular carcinoma
23 Dec 2011
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BACKGROUND: Frequent promoter hypermethylation of the inhibitors in either Rb or p53 pathways is associated with the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development. OBJECTIVE: To quantitatively assess the gradual changes of the promoter methylation of p14ARF, p15INK4b, p16INK4a and CCND2 genes in hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection-related HCC. METHODS: A total of 118 pairs of tumour and their corresponding non-tumour...
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