Hypermethylation of the human telomerase
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Isabelle Guilleret; Pu Yan; Fabienne Grange; Richard Braunschweig; Fred T. Bosma
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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DNA methylation is an epigenetic process involved in embryonic development, differentiation and aging. It is 1 of the mechanisms resulting in gene silencing in carcinogenesis, especially in tumor suppressor genes (e.g., p16, Rb). Telomerase, the DNA polymerase adding TTAGGG repeats to the chromosome