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Patterns and possible roles of LINE-1 methylation changes in smoke-exposed epithelia.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Wangsri Siriporn, Subbalekha Keskanya, Kitkumthorn Nakarin, Mutirangura Apiwat
Abstract excerpt
Tobacco smoking and reduced methylation of long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1) are crucial in oral carcinogenesis. 5'UTR of human LINE-1 sequence contains several CpG dinucleotides which are methylated in various proportions (0-100%). Methylation levels of many LINE-1s in cancer were reduced, hypomethylated. The hypomethylation of each LINE-1 locus can promote instability of genome and repress expression of a...
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