Promoter hypermethylation of the SFRP2 gene is a high-frequent alteration and tumor-specific epigenetic marker in human breast cancer.

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Published in Mol Cancer on November 06, 2008

Authors

Jürgen Veeck1, Erik Noetzel, Nuran Bektas, Edgar Jost, Arndt Hartmann, Ruth Knüchel, Edgar Dahl

Author Affiliations

1: Molecular Oncology Group, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. juergen.veeck@rwth-aachen.de

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