[Because genetic and epigenetic alterations of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene are common events in gastrointestinal tumor development, we sought to investigate the frequency and level of aberrant APC promoter methylation in primary tumors and paired preoperative serum or plasma samples of lung cancer patients by semiquantitative methylation-specific fluorogenic real-time PCR.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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