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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Lochlan Fennell
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-7036 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology 20190405 2
<h4>Background & aims</h4>Colorectal cancer is an epigenetically heterogeneous disease, however, the extent and spectrum of the CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) is not clear.<h4>Methods</h4>Genome-scale methylation and transcript expression were measured by DNA Methylation and RNA expression microarray in 216 unselected colorectal cancers, and findings were validated using The Cancer Genome Atlas 450K and RNA sequencing data. Mutations in epigenetic regulators were assessed using CIMP-subt ...[more]