Relationship between tumor DNA methylation status and patient characteristics in African-American and European-American women with breast cancer.

Aberrant DNA methylation is critical for development and progression of breast cancer. We investigated the association of CpG island methylation in candidate genes and clinicopathological features in 65 African-American (AA) and European-American (EA) breast cancer patients. Quantitative methylation...

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Main Authors: Songping Wang, Tiffany H Dorsey, Atsushi Terunuma, Rick A Kittles, Stefan Ambs, Bernard Kwabi-Addo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3365111?pdf=render