Association of Cigarette Smoking with Aberrant Methylation of the Tumor Suppressor Gene RARβ2 in Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Aberrant gene methylation is often seen in thyroid cancer, a common endocrine malignancy. Tobacco smoking has been shown to be associated with aberrant gene methylation in several cancers, but its relationship with gene methylation in thyroid cancer has not been examined. In the present study, we...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Endocrinology
Main Authors:	Katja eKiseljak-Vassiliades, Mingzhao eXing
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-12-01
Subjects:	Methylation thyroid cancer tumor suppressor gene RARβ gene tobacco smoking
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fendo.2011.00099/full