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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Zuolin Xiang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-28248 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20110628 16
<h4>Purpose</h4>Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) most often develops in patients infected with hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus. Differential gene expression profiling is useful for investigating genes associated with lymph node metastasis (LNM). We screened genes to identify potential biomarkers for LNM in HCC.<h4>Experimental design</h4>RNA was extracted from formalin-fixed specimens of paired intratumoral and peritumoral tissues of patients with lymph node-positive (n = 36) or negative (n = 36) ...[more]