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SUBMITTER: Xiao Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4568922 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Xiao Yingying Y Li Xiaoxia X Wang Haoli H Wen Ruiling R He Juan J Tang Jun J
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 20150617 9
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a pivotal role in carcinogenesis. Dysregulation of miRNAs, both oncogenic miRNAs and tumour-suppressive miRNAs, is closely associated with cancer development and progression. The levels of miRNAs could be changed epigenetically by DNA methylation in the 5' untranslated region (UTR) of pre-mature miRNAs. To investigate whether DNA methylation alters the expression of miR-129 in lung cancer, we did DNA methylation assays and found that 5' UTR region of miR-129-2 gene was ab ...[more]