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Methylation profiling of RhoC over-expressing SiHa cells (SiHa-R) against SiHa cells with backbone vector alone (SiHa-N)

ABSTRACT: Since we have found that the RhoC gene causes extensive changes to gene expression, a methylation array was carried out to determine if the observed transcriptional changes are due to methylation changes in the genome.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Sweta Srivastava

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-12125 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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