Decreased expression of MGMT in correlation with aberrant DNA methylation in esophageal cancer patients from North India

O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase, DNA repair gene, has been found to be involved with the pathogenesis of the esophageal cancer. DNA hypermethylation and other factors have been suggested to downregulate O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase. In this communication, the methylation status of...

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Main Authors: Asad Ur Rehman, Snigdha Saikia, Mohammad Askandar Iqbal, Istaq Ahmad, Sadaf, Afzal Anees, PS Aravinda, Pramod Kumar Mishra, Suresh Hedau, Sundeep Singh Saluja, Subhash Medhi, Syed Akhtar Husain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOS Press 2017-05-01
Series:Tumor Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1010428317705770