Chapter title |
Analysis of DNA Hypermethylation in Pancreatic Cancer Using Methylation-Specific PCR and Bisulfite Sequencing
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Chapter number | 16 |
Book title |
Cancer Epigenetics for Precision Medicine
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, September 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-8751-1_16 |
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Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-8750-4, 978-1-4939-8751-1
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Authors |
Bin Liu, Christian Pilarsky |
Abstract |
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive tumor and the fourth common cause of cancer death in the Western world. The lack of effective therapeutic strategies is attributed to the late diagnosis of this disease. Methylation markers could improve early detection and help in the surveillance of PDAC after treatment. Analysis of hypermethylation in the tumor tissue and tumor-derived exosomes might help to identify new therapeutic strategies and aid in the understanding of the pathophysiological changes occurring in pancreatic cancer. There are several methods for the detection of methylation events. Whereas methylation-specific PCR (MSP-PCR) is the method of choice, the cost reductions in DNA sequencing enables researchers to add bisulfite sequencing (BSS) to their repertoire if a small number of genes will be tested in a larger set of patients' samples. During the last years, several techniques to isolate and analyze DNA methylation have been proposed, but DNA modification using sodium bisulfite is still the gold standard. |
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