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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Patrick Tan
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-30601 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Science translational medicine 20121001 156
Epigenetic alterations are fundamental hallmarks of cancer genomes. We surveyed the landscape of DNA methylation alterations in gastric cancer by analyzing genome-wide CG dinucleotide (CpG) methylation profiles of 240 gastric cancers (203 tumors and 37 cell lines) and 94 matched normal gastric tissues. Cancer-specific epigenetic alterations were observed in 44% of CpGs, comprising both tumor hyper- and hypomethylation. Twenty-five percent of the methylation alterations were significantly associa ...[more]