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Constitutional promoter methylation and risk of familial melanoma.
Epigenetics - 1 May 2014
Hyland Paula L, Burke Laura S, Pfeiffer Ruth M, Rotunno Melissa, Sun David, Patil Prasad, Wu Xiaolin, Tucker Margaret A, Goldstein Alisa M, Yang Xiaohong Rose
Abstract excerpt
Constitutional epigenetic changes detected in blood or non-disease involving tissues have been associated with disease susceptibility. We measured promoter methylation of CDKN2A (p16 and p14ARF) and 13 melanoma-related genes using bisulfite pyrosequencing of blood DNA from 114 cases and 122 controls in 64 melanoma-prone families (26 segregating CDKN2A germline mutations). We also obtained gene expression data for...
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