Role of hMLH1 promoter hypermethylation
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Christian N. Arnold; Ajay Goel; C. Richard Boland
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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## Abstract Loss of DNA mismatch repair (MMR) occurs in 10β15% of sporadic colorectal cancer, is usually caused by hMLH1 hypermethylation, and has been shown to confer resistance to various chemotherapeutic reagents, including 5βfluorouracil (5βFU). We tested the hypothesis that demethylation of th