Helicobacter pylori infection has been considered to be one of the major factors implicated in etiology of gastric cancer. Aberrant DNA methylation accounts for epigenetic modifications induced by H. pylori. H. pylori-induced hypermethylation has been linked to enhancement of the rates of metastasis and recurrence in gastric cancer patients. H. pylori-induced gene hypermethylation has been know...

Gastric cancers arise through a multistep process characterized by the progressive accumulation of molecular alterations in which genetic and epigenetic mechanisms have been implicated. Gastric cancer is one of the human malignancies in which aberrant promoter CpG island hypermethylation is frequently found. Helicobacter pylori and Epstein-Barr virus, which are known carcinogens for gastric can...

This study was aimed at understanding the functional significance of HOXA11 hypermethylation in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). HOXA11 hypermethylation was characterized in six lung cancer cell lines, and its clinical significance was analyzed using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues from 317 NSCLC patients, and Ki-67 expression was analyzed using immunohistochemistry. The promoter re...

PURPOSE AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Glutathione S-transferases, enzymes that defend cells against damage mediated by oxidant and electrophilic carcinogens, may be critical determinants of cancer pathogenesis. In this report, we assess the role of epigenetic silencing of the GSTP1 gene, a gene encoding the pi-class glutathione S-transferase, in the pathogenesis of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated ...

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is thought to develop through a multistage process in which Barrett's metaplasia progresses through low- and high-grade dysplasia to invasive cancer. Transcriptional silencing of tumor suppressor genes by promoter CpG island hypermethylation has been observed in many types of human cancer. Analysis of CpG island hypermethylation in EAC has thus far been limited t...

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is thought to develop through a multistage process in which Barrett’s metaplasia progresses through lowand high-grade dysplasia to invasive cancer. Transcriptional silencing of tumor suppressor genes by promoter CpG island hypermethylation has been observed in many types of human cancer. Analysis of CpG island hypermethylation in EAC has thus far been limited to ...

BACKGROUND Detection of hypermethylated circulating tumor DNA has the potential to be a minimally invasive, low cost, and reproducible method for cancer detection. METHODS We evaluated serum from 100 patients with known head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and 50 healthy control patients for 3 previously described methylation targets, endothelin receptor type B (EDNRB), cyclin-depend...

In a preceding paper for brain tumors, we demonstrate a tight association between regional hypermethylation at locus D17S5 of chromosome 17p and allelic loss of this chromosome. Because 17p allelic losses occur at the earliest stages of brain tumors, the exact temporal relationship between this event and the hypermethylation could not be elucidated. In renal cancers, two linked structural chang...

intoduction: acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is a heterogeneous group of hematologic malignancies with abundant changeability in the pathogenesis. dna methylation of cpg islands within the promoters of specific genes may play roles in tumor initiation and progression. secreted frizzled-related proteins (sfrps) are negative regulator of the wnt signaling pathway. in the present study, we examined t...

gastric cancer (gc) is the second most common cancer in the world and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality. methylation of promoter cpg islands (cgis) belonging to tumor suppressor genes causes transcriptional silencing of their corresponding genes leading to carcinogenesis and other disorders. adenomatous polyposis coli (apc) a tumor suppressor gene is inactivated by methylation of prom...