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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: William Accomando
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-39981 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20120926 22
<h4>Purpose</h4>Natural killer (NK) cells are a key element of the innate immune system implicated in human cancer. To examine NK cell levels in archived bloods from a study of human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), a new DNA-based quantification method was developed.<h4>Experimental design</h4>NK cell-specific DNA methylation was identified by analyzing DNA methylation and mRNA array data from purified blood leukocyte subtypes (NK, T, B, monocytes, granulocytes), and confirmed via ...[more]