[The average numbers of methylated genes were 0, 1.27, 1.38 and 2.72 for normal livers, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and HCCs, respectively, and this progressive increase from normal livers to chronic hepatitis/cirrhosis through HCC may suggest that tumor suppressor gene methylation is an early event in hepatocarcinogenesis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE