High frequency of hypermethylation of p14, p15 and p16 in oral pre-cancerous lesions associated with betel-quid chewing in Sri Lanka
โ Scribed by Maiko Takeshima; Masato Saitoh; Kaoru Kusano; Hiroki Nagayasu; Yoshihito Kurashige; Muthumala Malsantha; Toshiya Arakawa; Taishin Takuma; Itsuo Chiba; Tohru Kaku; Toshiyuki Shibata; Yoshihiro Abiko
- Book ID
- 111255127
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0904-2512
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In Table I of the above-noted article, the column head ''Betel-liquid'' should have been ''betel-quid''. The corrected Table is reprinted here.