Colorectal cancer DNA methylation patterns from patients in Manaus, Brazil

BACKGROUND: DNA methylation is commonly linked with the silencing of the gene expression for many tumor suppressor genes. As such, determining DNA methylation patterns should aid, in times to come, in the diagnosis and personal treatment for various types of cancers. Here, we analyzed the methylatio...

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Main Authors: Fabiana Greyce Oliveira Almeida, Priscila Ferreira de Aquino, Afonso Duarte Leäo de Souza, Antonia Queiroz Lima de Souza, Sonia do Carmo Vinhote, Thais Messias Mac-Cormick, Marcelo Soares da Mota Silva, Sidney Raimundo Silva Chalub, Juliana de Saldanha da Gama Fischer, Paulo Costa Carvalho, Maria da Gloria da Costa Carvalho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2015-01-01
Series:Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602015000100050&lng=en&tlng=en