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. 1996 Nov;11(11):1079-82.
doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1996.tb00040.x.

Studies on the hypomethylation of c-myc, c-Ha-ras oncogenes and histopathological changes in human gastric carcinoma

J Y Fang  1 , S S Zhu, S D Xiao, S J Jiang, Y Shi, X Y Chen, X M Zhou, L F Qian
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Studies on the hypomethylation of c-myc, c-Ha-ras oncogenes and histopathological changes in human gastric carcinoma

J Y Fang et al. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1996 Nov.

Abstract

In order to study the status of DNA methylation of specific oncogenes and the relationship between them and the pathological changes in gastric carcinoma, we analysed the methylated status of c-myc, c-Ha-ras oncogenes by Southern blot hybridization. Genomic DNA from cancerous, paracancerous and non-cancerous areas of surgically resected specimens were examined in 22 cases of advanced human gastric carcinoma. Specimens were digested by the restriction endonucleases MspI/HpaII, which are able to cleave between methylated and non-methylated cytosine at their nucleotide recognition site the DNA 5'-CCGG sequence, and were hybridized with c-myc, c-Ha-ras oncogene probes. Moreover, the corresponding pathological changes in gastric carcinoma were observed. The results showed that c-myc, c-Ha-ras oncogenes from cancerous (10/22, 5/10) and paracancerous areas (13/22, 4/10) were hypomethylated and that there was no significant relationship between them and the histopathological changes.

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