[Recent studies have identified a series of candidate tumor suppressor genes (for example, RASSF1A, CASP8, and HIC1) that are each specifically epigenetically inactivated in a large proportion (> 30%) of medulloblastomas by promoter hypermethylation, leading to the silencing of their gene expression.]. 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