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Detection in Fecal DNA of Colon Cancer–Specific Methylation of the Nonexpressed Vimentin Gene

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2005

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Wei-Dong Chen, Zhifen Han, Joel Skoletsky, Jeff Olson, Jerome F. Sah, Lois L. Myeroff, Petra Platzer, Shi‐Long Lu, Dawn Dawson, Joseph Willis,
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Abstract

Aberrant methylation of exon-1 sequences within the nontranscribed vimentin gene is a novel molecular biomarker of colon cancer and can be successfully detected in fecal DNA to identify nearly half of individuals with colon cancer.

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