作者: Jong Park , Romulo Martin Brena , Mike Gruidl , Jun Zhou , Tim Huang
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摘要: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of related mortality, accounting for almost one-third deaths in men and one-fourth women; 160,440 lung are expected 2004. Survival from depends mainly upon stage at presentation. As localized tumors generally do not symptoms, disease is usually diagnosed symptomatic patients advanced stages when prognosis poor. a result, overall 5-year survival rate only 15%. It well known that epigenetic alterations such as DNA methylation CpG dinucleotides located islands within regulatory (promoter) regions genes associated with transcriptional silencing cancer. Promoter hypermethylation critical pathway could identify potential biomarkers risk. Our goal this study to novel hypermethylated We have investigated profiles samples 14 paired tumor adjacent normal tissues resected same individuals using restriction landmark genomic scanning (RLGS). assess status an average 2,012 each tumor. identified 162 differentially methylated loci where were but non-cancer tissues. Among sites differential methylation, detected least one tumor/normal pair, 21 reported previously tissue.