Methylation of the septin 9 gene (SEPT9) occurs in higher frequency in colorectal cancer (CRC) compared to control samples, which suggests that SEPT9 methylation is a useful biomarker for screening CRC. However, the methylation status of SEPT9 in Chinese CRC patients is scarcely reported. In the present study, SEPT9 methylation was tested in CRC tissues obtained from a Chinese population and co...

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer is the third most common form of cancer and hypermethylation has been shown to increase the risk of developing this disease. DNA hypermethylation in the A kinase anchor protein 12 (AKAP12/Gravin) promoter region and the accompanied underexpression of it has been noted in a variety of human cancers. METHODS We applied methylation-specific high resolution melting (M...

SOCS1 and SHP1 negatively regulate the Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription (Jak/STAT) signaling pathway. The role of promoter hypermethylation leading to epigenetic inactivation of SOCS1 and SHP1 in myeloma was investigated. The methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP) was used to define SOCS1 and SHP1 methylation in 34 diagnostic myeloma samples. For SOCS1...

Objective(s) : Stem cell differentiation into different cell lineages depends upon several factors, cell cycle control elements and intracellular signaling elements, including P15INK4b and P16INK4a genes. Epigenetics may be regarded as a control mechanism which is affected by these factors with respect to their promoter structure. Materials and Methods : The CD34 + cord blood stem cells were pu...

Because the p16 locus is involved consistently in chromosomal losses found in malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), we studied p16 in a series of 21 GISTs with complete follow-up using immunohistochemical analysis, semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and methylation-specific PCR (MSP). A fraction of cells of more than 20% with low or absent p16...

Methylation changes of CpG islands can be determined using PCR-based assays. However, the exact impact of the amount of input templates (TAIT) on DNA methylation analysis has not been previously recognized. Using COL2A1 gene as an input reference, TAIT difference between human tissues with methylation-positive and -negative detection was calculated for two representative genes GFRA1 and P16. Re...

Background: Although the precise pathogenesis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) remains unclear, studying gene-regulating mechanisms during ALL pathogeneses may shed light on underlying driving malignant behavior. There is some evidence showing promoter hypermethylation and silencing RASSF1A tumor suppressor gene in cells; however, there a lack for whether indeed alters different phases or ...

DNA methylation changes could provide a mechanism for DNA plasticity and dynamism for short-term adaptation, enabling a type of cell memory to register cellular history under different environmental conditions. Some environmental insults may also result in pathological methylation with corresponding alteration of gene expression patterns. Evidence from several studies has suggested that in schi...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has a high likelihood of recurrence and a poor prognosis. To detect cancer-related genes of HCC, we developed a new technique: triple combination array analysis, consisting of a methylation array, a gene expression array and a single nucleotide polymorphism array. A surgical specimen obtained from a 68-year-old female HCC patient was analyzed using triple combinat...

Methylation of the CpG island in the MGMT promoter region is a frequent event in several cancer types including colorectal cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, and glioblastoma. A correlation between methylation and the T allele of the rs16906252 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in colorectal carcinomas has previously been reported. As aberrant MGMT methylation can be an early event in tumor deve...