[A companion correlative tumor-biology study has identified epigenetic silencing of the promoter of the gene that encodes MGMT (O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase) in tumor specimens as a strong and independent prognostic factor for survival among patients with a newly diagnosed glioblastoma, as well as a predictor of survival benefit from chemoradiotherapy with temozolomide.]. 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