Cancer Letters
Volume 226, Issue 1 , Pages 77-84 , 8 August 2005

An association of DNMT3b protein expression with P16INK4a promoter hypermethylation in non-smoking female lung cancer with human papillomavirus infection

  • Torng-Sen Lin

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, No. 110, Sec. 1, Chien-Kuo N. Rd, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
    • Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
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  • Huei Lee

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Medical and Molecular Toxicology, Chung Shan Medical University, No. 110, Sec. 1, Chien-Kuo N. Rd, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Ruei-A Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Ming-Lin Ho

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Chia-Yu Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China
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  • Ya-Hui Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Yi Yu Tsai

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, No. 110, Sec. 1, Chien-Kuo N. Rd, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
    • Department of Ophthalmology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
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  • Ming-Chih Chou

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, No. 110, Sec. 1, Chien-Kuo N. Rd, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
    • Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Ya-Wen Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, No. 110, Sec. 1, Chien-Kuo N. Rd, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 4 24730022 11605; fax: +886 4 24723229.

Received 25 October 2004 ,Revised 8 December 2004 ,Accepted 13 December 2004.

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PII: S0304-3835(04)00984-X

doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.12.031

Cancer Letters
Volume 226, Issue 1 , Pages 77-84 , 8 August 2005

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