DNA methylation patterns in lung carcinomas

GP Pfeifer, TA Rauch - Seminars in cancer biology, 2009 - Elsevier
The genome of epithelial tumors is characterized by numerous chromosomal aberrations,
DNA base sequence changes, and epigenetic abnormalities. The epigenome of cancer cells …

High-resolution mapping of DNA hypermethylation and hypomethylation in lung cancer

TA Rauch, X Zhong, X Wu, M Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Changes in DNA methylation patterns are an important characteristic of human cancer.
Tumors have reduced levels of genomic DNA methylation and contain hypermethylated …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide DNA methylation analyses in lung adenocarcinomas: Association with EGFR, KRAS and TP53 mutation status, gene expression and prognosis

MM Bjaanæs, T Fleischer, AR Halvorsen, A Daunay… - Molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background DNA methylation alterations are early events in tumorigenesis and important in
the regulation of gene expression in cancer cells. Lung cancer patients have in general a …

Genome-wide CpG island methylation analyses in non-small cell lung cancer patients

G Heller, VN Babinsky, B Ziegler, M Weinzierl… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is part of the epigenetic gene regulation complex, which is relevant for the
pathogenesis of cancer. We performed a genome-wide search for methylated CpG islands …

DNA methylation biomarkers for lung cancer

TA Rauch, Z Wang, X Wu, KH Kernstine, AD Riggs… - Tumor Biology, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Changes in DNA methylation patterns are an important characteristic of human
cancer including lung cancer. In particular, hypermethylation of CpG islands is a signature of …

Identification of CpG islands hypermethylated in human lung cancer by the arbitrarily primed-PCR method

T Kohno, M Kawanishi, J Inazawa, J Yokota - Human genetics, 1998 - Springer
DNA hypermethylation is believed to be involved in human carcinogenesis, since it
suppresses the transcription of defined genes and is associated with chromosomal …

HOX gene clusters are hotspots of de novo methylation in CpG islands of human lung adenocarcinomas

M Shiraishi, A Sekiguchi, AJ Oates, MJ Terry… - Oncogene, 2002 - nature.com
CpG island methylation results in the silencing of the associated gene and is an important
step in tumorigenesis. Following a comprehensive isolation of CpG islands that were …

Multiple gene methylation of nonsmall cell lung cancers evaluated with 3‐dimensional microarray

Y Wang, D Zhang, W Zheng, J Luo… - … International Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Aberrant DNA methylation of the CpG islands for cancer‐related genes is
among the earliest and most frequent alterations in cancer and may be useful for diagnosing …

Hierarchical clustering of lung cancer cell lines using DNA methylation markers

AK Virmani, JA Tsou, KD Siegmund, LYC Shen… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2002 - AACR
Recent analyses of global and gene-specific methylation patterns in cancer cells have
suggested that cancers from different organs demonstrate distinct patterns of CpG island …

DNA methylation differences associated with tumor tissues identified by genome scanning analysis

G Liang, CE Salem, CY Mimi, HD Nguyen… - Genomics, 1998 - Elsevier
Most investigations on the role of DNA methylation in cancer have focused on epigenetic
changes associated with known tumor suppressor genes. This may have led to an …