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Comment
. 2017 Sep;66(9):1721-1723.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2016-313387. Epub 2016 Dec 21.

High impact of methylation accumulation on metachronous gastric cancer: 5-year follow-up of a multicentre prospective cohort study

Masahiro Maeda  1   2 , Takeshi Nakajima  3 , Ichiro Oda  3 , Taichi Shimazu  4 , Nobutake Yamamichi  5 , Takao Maekita  6 , Kiyoshi Asada  1 , Chizu Yokoi  3   7 , Takayuki Ando  1 , Takeichi Yoshida  6 , Sohachi Nanjo  1 , Mitsuhiro Fujishiro  5 , Takuji Gotoda  3   8 , Masao Ichinose  6 , Toshikazu Ushijima  1
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High impact of methylation accumulation on metachronous gastric cancer: 5-year follow-up of a multicentre prospective cohort study

Masahiro Maeda et al. Gut. 2017 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; GASTRIC CANCER; METHYLATION.

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Competing interests: None.

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Cumulative incidences of metachronous gastric cancers of patients in quartiles (Q1–Q4) of methylation levels of miR-124a-3, EMX1 and NKX6-1.
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