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Monday, September 06, 2010

Methylation profiles of hereditary and sporadic ovarian cancer - Histopathology - abstract

Conclusions: 

 CDH13, GSTP1 and RASSF1 are frequently methylated in both sporadic and BRCA1-associated ovarian cancers. Interestingly, methylation of BRCA1, while frequent in sporadic ovarian cancer, never occurred in the hereditary group. BRCA1-associated ovarian cancers mimic their sporadic counterparts in extent and pattern of promoter methylation of several common tumour suppressor genes. This finding could have implications for future chemotherapy regimens based on epigenetic changes

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