Correlating blood-based DNA methylation markers and prostate cancer risk in African-American men.

The objective of this work was to investigate the clinical significance of promoter gene DNA methylation changes in whole blood from African-American (AA) men with prostate cancer (PCa). We used high throughput pyrosequencing analysis to quantify percentage DNA methylation levels in a panel of 8 gen...

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Main Authors: Emmanuel Moses-Fynn, Wei Tang, Desta Beyene, Victor Apprey, Robert Copeland, Yasmine Kanaan, Bernard Kwabi-Addo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6133349?pdf=render