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Association of CpG island methylator phenotype and EREG/AREG methylation and expression in colorectal cancer.
British journal of cancer - 14 Jun 2016
Lee Michael S, McGuffey Elizabeth J, Morris Jeffrey S, Manyam Ganiraju, Baladandayuthapani Veerabahdran, Wei Wei, Morris Van K, Overman Michael J, Maru Dipen M, Jiang Zhi-Qin, Hamilton Stanley R, Kopetz Scott
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BACKGROUND: High EREG and AREG expression, and left-sided primary tumours are associated with superior efficacy of anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC), but a unifying explanation of these findings is lacking. METHODS: RNA-seq, gene expression arrays, and DNA methylation profiling were completed on 179 CRC tumours. Results were validated using independent The...
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