Aberrant promoter methylation in pleural
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Hideki Katayama; Akio Hiraki; Keisuke Aoe; Keiichi Fujiwara; Keitaro Matsuo; Tad
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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## Abstract Accumulating evidence implicates epigenetic changes such as hypermethylation in carcinogenesis. We investigated whether DNA methylation of 5 tumor suppressor genes in pleural fluid samples could aid in diagnosis of malignant effusion. In samples from 47 patients with malignant pleural e