Identification of novel tumor markers in prostate, colon and breast cancer by unbiased methylation profiling.

DNA hypermethylation is a common epigenetic abnormality in cancer and may serve as a useful marker to clone cancer-related genes as well as a marker of clinical disease activity. To identify CpG islands methylated in prostate cancer, we used methylated CpG island amplification (MCA) coupled with rep...

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Main Authors: Woonbok Chung, Bernard Kwabi-Addo, Michael Ittmann, Jaroslav Jelinek, Lanlan Shen, Yinhua Yu, Jean-Pierre J Issa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2323612?pdf=render