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Methylation levels of LINE-1 repeats and CpG island loci are inversely related in normal colonic mucosa

  1. Barry Iacopetta1,*,
  2. Fabienne Grieu1,
  3. Michael Phillips2,
  4. Andrew Ruszkiewicz3,
  5. James Moore4,
  6. Toshinari Minamoto5,
  7. Kazuyuki Kawakami5

Article first published online: 19 JUL 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2007.00548.x

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Cancer Science

Cancer Science

Volume 98, Issue 9, pages 1454–1460, September 2007

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Iacopetta, B., Grieu, F., Phillips, M., Ruszkiewicz, A., Moore, J., Minamoto, T. and Kawakami, K. (2007), Methylation levels of LINE-1 repeats and CpG island loci are inversely related in normal colonic mucosa. Cancer Science, 98: 1454–1460. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2007.00548.x

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  1. 1

    School of Surgery and Pathology, and

  2. 2

    Cancer Council Clinical Trials WA, WA Institute for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Nedlands 6009;

  3. 3

    Division of Tissue Pathology, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Frome Road, Adelaide 5000;

  4. 4

    Colorectal Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Frome Road, Adelaide 5000, Australia;

  5. 5

    Division of Translational and Clinical Oncology, Molecular and Cellular Targeting Translational Oncology Center, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Takaramachi 13-1, Kanazawa 920-0934, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: barry.iacopetta@uwa.edu.au

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  1. Issue published online: 19 JUL 2007
  2. Article first published online: 19 JUL 2007
  3. (Received April 5, 2007/Revised April 30, 2007/2nd Revised May 16, 2007/Accepted May 24, 2007)

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