Comparing the DNA hypermethylome with gene mutations in human colorectal cancer.

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Published in PLoS Genet on July 31, 2007

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Kornel E Schuebel1, Wei Chen, Leslie Cope, Sabine C Glöckner, Hiromu Suzuki, Joo-Mi Yi, Timothy A Chan, Leander Van Neste, Wim Van Criekinge, Sandra van den Bosch, Manon van Engeland, Angela H Ting, Kamwing Jair, Wayne Yu, Minoru Toyota, Kohzoh Imai, Nita Ahuja, James G Herman, Stephen B Baylin

Author Affiliations

1: Cancer Biology Division, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. kornels@jhmi.edu

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