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"CDKN2A has been proved to bear a striking resemblance to classic TSGs such as p53 , and to be an important negative regulator of cell growth and proliferation. xref It is largely reported that a critical mechanism for silencing CDKN2A is hypermethylation of its regulatory region. xref Abnormal methylation of the CDKN2A gene is a common event in many types of human cancer, as well as in cervical cancer. xref , xref – xref However, conclusions regarding the role of methylated CDKN2A during the carcinogenesis of cervical cancer are inconsistent."

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"Total DNA methylation and promoter-specific methylation of the two tumor suppressor genes, p14ARF and p15INK4b , were performed employing the DNA derived from 40 petrochemical employers subjected to ambient benzene concentrations of <1 ppm, and 31 office employers not subjected to benzene."

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"After 10 days of treatment, we isolated the DNA from the cells for measurement p16 promoter methylation."

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"The present study investigated the rate of p16 gene promoter methylation and the protein expression levels of p16, cyclin D1, CDK4, Rb and E2F1 in LFs from the lungs of rats exposed to hyperoxia and normoxia on postnatal days 3, 7 and 14."

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"Methylation of p16INK4A was examined using methylation specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (MSP)."

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"Conclusion suggested that there were high incidence of methylation of p15(INK4B) and p16(INK4A) genes in patients with MM."

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"The difference of CDKN2A-methylation and p16 protein expression between HCCs and liver metastases was statistically significant (p < 0.01, respectively)."

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"It has been observed that there was a significant inverse correlation between p16 hyper methylation and P53 expression in a sample of Iranian esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients [ xref ]."

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"The p16 methylation status and the presence of p16 protein were analyzed by methylation-specific PCR and immunohistochemistry, respectively."

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"Methylation of p16, IGFBP7, MLH1 and MINT1, -2, -12 and -31 was analyzed using bisulfite pyrosequencing."

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"ROS overproduction, would then, induce p16 promoter methylation and its subsequent downregulation in a process that may contribute to the progression from Barrett’s esophagus to esophageal adenocarcinoma [ xref ]."

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"As a result, it is not surprising to see a significant overlap between CIMP and sporadic MI-positive cancers [16,34,44] , and concomitant methylation of p16 INK4a and p14 ARF genes may be correla[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"The family members with negative endoscopy and positive p16 promoter methylation are being monitored closely for signs of ESCC development through regular check-ups and chromoendoscopies."

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"Methylation of p16, MINT1, MINT2, MINT31, and hMLH1 was analyzed by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction in 102 HPs, 8 serrated adenomas, 19 tubular adenomas, and 9 adenocarcinomas from 17 patients, with multiple/large HPs or hyperplastic polyposis and in 16 sporadic HPs from 14 additional patients."

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"Here we describe the bisulfite modification of DNA samples and detection of promoter methylation of p16 gene from bisulfite-treated DNA using MSP."

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"The levels of p16, RASSF1A and FHIT promoter methylation and the RTL of white blood cells in peripheral blood DNA of 200 healthy individuals and 200 lung cancer patients were analyzed by SYBR Green-based quantitative methylation-specific PCR and quantitative PCR."

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"The analysis revealed that p16 promoter methylation was not linked to the prognosis of breast cancer patients in OS."

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"The combination of methylated CDKN2A, GSTP1 and MGMT , enzymes related to DNA repair events and drug metabolism [ xref , xref ], achieves 70% sensitivity and 100% specificity in BC detection [ xref ]."

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"Thus, it seems that p16 INK4a methylation and p14 ARF methylation are unrelated events ( P = 0.59)."

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"High-density methylation in p16INK4A was observed in a subset of GC, but the first position of CpG was never methylated in EBV-negative GC."

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"K-Ras, p53 and B-Raf mutations and RASSF1A, E-Cadherin and p16INK4A promoter methylation were investigated in 202 CRCs with and without lymph node and/or liver metastasis, to assess whether gene abnormalities are related to a metastogenic phenotype."

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"PTEN and CDKN2A methylation levels were low and increased in late stage III and IV (p = 0.003, p = 0.004 between stage I and III, p = 0.018 and p = 0.003 between stage I and IV), while MGMT methylation levels were low and appear to decrease with tumor stage (p = 4.5e-4 between stage I and IV) (Figure  xref )."

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"However, the frequency of promoter methylation of p16 and MSH2 was higher than that of MLH1 or PMS2 in general and highest in HCCs of grade II+III and stage pT3 ( xref )."

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"The methylation of p16 gene was found in 15 of 30 cases SCC and 1 of 10 cases of leukoplakia of buccal mucosa (P < 0.05)."

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"55 These observations are particularly notable in the context of mesothelioma because, although mutational or deletional loss of pRb is rare in most tumor types including MP[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Several studies carried out in workers who were exposed to air pollutants showed there was altered methylation of APC , CDKN2A , TP53 , RASSF1A , and MGMT genes, and of the repetitive sequences ALU and LINE-1 [ xref , xref , xref , xref ]."

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"Thirty-one percent (13/42) of 42 patients assessable for p16 gene methylation showed to be methylation-positive."

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"Furthermore, we observed a positive correlation between MLH1 methylation and CDKN2A methylation (P = 0.03), whereas no association was noted between MSI positivity and CDKN2A methylation (P = 0.95)."

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"When grouped according to the method of p16 methylation detection used, the combined HR was 1.40 (95% CI: 1.02–1.92) for MSP and 1.26 (95% CI: 0.87–1.82) for Q-MSP."

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"In this study, we analyzed aberrant promoter methylation of p16 and RAR-β genes in 134 epithelial ovarian carcinomas (EOCs), 23 low malignant potential (LMP) tumors, 26 benign cystadenomas, and 15 normal ovarian tissues."

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"CDKN2A is also frequently methylated (23–67 % of cases; [ xref ]) to silence expression of this tumor suppressor [ xref , xref , xref ]; although, degree of methylation and expression changes can vary significantly among individual tumors [ xref ]."

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"Instead, our findings indicate that methylation of p16 3’UTR by NSun2 may act as a stabilizing factor for p16 mRNA ( xref , xref , xref , and xref ), which encodes a well-known inhibitor of cell proliferation."

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"Additionally, survival analysis showed that patients with P16 INK4a promoter methylation had a shorter progression-free survival in univariate and multivariate Cox regression models (hazard ratio =1.68, 95% CI=1.26-2.24; hazard ratio =1.55, 95% CI=1.15-2.08; respectively)."

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"Several mechanisms of gene inactivation have been described; in this study we have focused on p16 gene promoter methylation."

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"In 19 patients with tumor recurrence, the p16(INK4a) and p14(ARF) methylation status of the primary and recurrent tumors was similar."

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"The clarification of the role of p16 gene promoter methylation in the pathogenesis and evolution of CLL needs further investigation."

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"However, in another study, SAM caused c-myc promoter hypermethylation, but did not change P16 methylation xref ."

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"In hairdressers, gene specific methylation analysis of selected cancer-related genes allowed the identification of higher methylation of the CDKN2A gene, a master regulator of cell cycle ( xref )."

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"Without analysis of CIMP that is a potential confounder, some studies reported that CDKN2A methylation was significantly associated with worse prognosis in multivariate analysis; xref , xref however, those studies were limited by small sample sizes (N=90 and N=151, respectively)."

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"In clinical applications RUNX3 and TSLC1 methylation may be utilized as molecular diagnostic markers, and hMLH1 and p16 methylation as predictors of malignancy in the stomach."

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"We observed that the frequency of CDKN2A methylation was significantly higher in PanINs patients than that in normal individual controls."

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"Moreover, RARβ , p16INK4a , FHIT , and RASSF1A promoter methylation increases with increasing smoking intensity [ xref , xref – xref ]."

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"Promoter methylation of p16, FHIT, RAR, CDH1, DAPK1, hTERT, RASSF1A, MGMT, BRCA1 and PALB2 genes was assessed by methylation-sensitive high-resolution melting (MS-HRM)."

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"Anglim et al demonstrated that aberrant promoter methylation of p16 was observed 3 years before diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma in smokers ( xref )."

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"For example,p16 INK4A methylation and associated inactivation is detected in nearly 85% of CC."

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"RASSF1A promoter hypermethylation (94%; 17 of 18) was more frequent compared to p16 methylation (56%, 10 of 18)."

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"The efficiency of semi-nested PCR in detecting p16 methylation of plasma DNA is demonstrated in Fig. 1 ."

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"P16 methylation was not correlated with PCa in the urine and blood."

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"We also found a non-significant relationship between CDKN2A methylation and better survival (p =0.07)."

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"In this study we aimed to evaluate aberrant p16(INK4a) gene promoter methylation in patients with head and neck cancer."

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"Prognostic values of CDKN2A gene methylation in PENs/pancreatic cancers (PCs)."

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"The apparent low levels of expression seen in approximately half of the tumors was not attributed to methylation of the p16 gene."

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"Whereas P16 promoter methylation is showed to be a late event in EC development."

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"Methylation of both p15 INK4b and p16 INK4a is also common in NHL [ 167,294 ] and multiple myeloma [ 333 ] (see Table 8 B)."

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"The results showed that P14 ARF methylation level in the cancer tissue was significantly higher than that of adjacent tissue, while P14 ARF mRNA level was reduced in cancerous tissue compared with the adjacent tissue and exhibited a negative correlation with DNA methylation."

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"Belinsky et al. reported 94% concordance between p16 methylation detected in tumor tissue and bronchial epithelial cells [49] ."

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"In conclusion, our findings indicate that the rs755622 C–rs5844572 7-repeat MIF haplotype, which includes two distinct alleles that are in strong linkage disequilibrium, is significantly associated with increased methylation of both p14 ARF and p16 INK4a ."

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"Next, we evaluated the degree of p14 ARF promoter methylation, limiting the analysis to tumors and corresponding adjacent colon mucosa from 35 randomly selected patients (Table  xref ), including one of the seven CRCs that was identified as having heavy methylation by MSP (sample T2, Table  xref )."

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"Our results revealed that p16 methylation risk in HCC was significantly increased from normal to HCC though benign disease bloods OR, 95% CI =16.23 (11.66, 22.58) in Fig. xref (a)."

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"Both p14(ARF) methylation and allelic loss at 9p21 were associated with loss of p14(ARF) expression."

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"30 Quite low rates for p14 methylation were found by Weber et al. (2.5%) 31 in pleomorphic adenomas."

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"Ecad, p16 and APC genes were methylated both in maignant and benign tissue samples."

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"Previous studies have shown that p16 methylation is correlated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer [ xref ], and DNA hypermethylation of the promoter was observed in 60% of p16 genes, and was markedly correlated with decreased mRNA expression [ xref ]."

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"In a comparison of patients with and without adenomas, the methylation of p16 , MLH1 and MGMT could not predict the presence of adenoma ( xref ); in colorectal cancer patients, significant methylation was observed at the surgical margin (⩽10 cm from tumour) and was shown to be influenced by gender and by a polymorphism in the DNMT3B gene ( xref ; xref ; xref ; xref )."

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"p53 mutations were detected in 50% (56 of 115) and p14 methylation in 29% (32 of 112) of cases."

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"However, on the other hand, DNA methylation, methyltransferase I protein expression and p16 promoter methylation were significantly reduced in 14 FAP patients who received black raspberry powder for nine months by oral administration (1787 mg/individual/day) and rectal insertion (595 mg/individual/day) of two suppositories [ xref ]."

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"In conclusion, our results demonstrate that methylation of the ppENK and p16 genes increases with PanIN grade suggesting that methylation of these genes is not an initiating event in pancreatic ca[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Recent studies by Kim et al. [13] have shown in primary, human non-small cell lung tumors that the incidence of methylation of INK4a varies between the different histological tumor types."

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"The methylation status of both p14 and p16 was not associated with gender or age, while p16 methylation was strongly associated with Helicobacter pylori infection (OR=4.71, 95% CI=2.35-9.46, p<0.0001)."

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"From logistic regression analysis results, methylation of p16 and FHIT genes was an independent risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma with odds ratio (OR) values of 10.550 (2.313~48.116) and 8.239 (2.386~28.455), respectively."

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"The significantly inversed relationship was observed between GC samples with and without p16 methylation."

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"Brock et al identified the methylation of p16 and CDH13 in tumorous and mediastinal lymph nodes, estimating the odds ratios (ORs) for CRC recurrence as 8.00 (95% CI, 2.50–25.51) and 4.32 (95% CI, 1.61–185.02), respectively."

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"Qualitative assessment of the p16 INK4a promoter methylation was performed in 87 DLBCLs, in which positive MSP results were scored in 24 (27.6%) and negative results in 63 (72.4%) of the cases ( Fig[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Tumor-specific methylation of the p14ARF and p16INK4a genes was found in 33% and 32% of primary colon carcinomas, respectively."

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"Methylation of p15 and p16 was associated with an absence of gene expression, as assessed by reverse transcription-PCR."

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"The SVM and DT models for diagnosing lung cancer were successfully developed through the combined detection of p16, RASSF1A and FHIT promoter methylation and RTL, which provided useful tools for screening lung cancer."

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"Aberrant methylation of p16 , RARβ2 , CDH13 , and RASSF1A genes has also been found in specimens of bronchial epithelial cells from cancer-free heavy smokers [ xref ]."

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"In our own experience, we could not detect de novo methylation of p16 INK4A in 22 neuroblastoma cell lines (van Noesel et al., 2003b) ."

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"However, some reports show that promoter methylation of p16 both in tumours and margins may be linked to chronic exposure to carcinogens in alcohol and tobacco xref , xref , xref ."

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"The promoter rs35652124 C/rs6706649 C haplotype was significantly associated with increased p14 methylation following H. pylori infection (OR, 2.90; 95% CI 1.14–7.36) [ xref ]."

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"The methylated- p16 was only detected in one of 29 gastritis/normal samples in which p16 mRNA was not detected."

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"Most studies have assessed p16 methylation patterns in malignant tumors; however, in recent studies of both colorectal and Barrett's esophagus, methylation of p16 was identified in pre-malignant tissu[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Methylation of CDKN2A was present in 9 of 41 (22%) of MCC."

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"Every 1 μg/m 3 increase of NO 2 resulted in 0.08% and 0.10% increase of iNOS methylation in DNA from blood and lung tissues, and 0.09% decrease of p16 CDKN2A promoter methylation in DNA from blood, respectively ( xref )."

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"The current meta-analysis investigated the association between p16 INK4a promoter methylation and human ovarian cancer."

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"A previous meta-analysis only reported that p16 methylation was significantly higher in HCC than in normal or adjacent tissues by Zhang et al, 2016.[ xref ]The present results compare favorably with the previous meta-analysis by Zang et al, 2011,[ xref ]which also reported that p16 promoter methylation was correlated with HCC risk in cancer versus liver cirrhosis."

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"When RCCs were compared to nonmalignant samples, the heterogeneity ofp16 INK4A promoter methylation was high (I 2 = 51.7%, P = 0.029)."

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"In addition, there was a significant geographical difference in the meta-analysis of p16 methylation in China (OR = 3.61, 95% CI = 1.86-7.01, I 2 = 53%, p = 0.0001), but not in Japan (OR = 1.52, 95% CI = 0.71-3.26, I 2 = 36%, p = 0.28)."

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"Previous work in our group, carried out in Chilean subjects by methylation-specific PCR (MSP), demonstrated a high prevalence of CDKN2A promoter methylation in squamous cell lung carcinomas (SQCs) and adenocarcinomas (AdCs) [ xref ], [ xref ]."

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"The presence of epigenetic changes, including incorrect promoter region methylation of p16 and MGMT genes in neoplastic cells of lung cancer, was found with variable frequency."

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"In a study, p16 methylation has been associated with malignant transformation of oral epithelial dysplasia and was considered a potential biomarker for the prediction of prognosis of mild or moderate oral epithelial dysplasia (Cao et al. xref ; Kresty et al. xref )."

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"P16 methylation occurred in 11 out of 20 (55%) patients."

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"HBV markers were detected in (4/25) of HCC patients; all had methylated p16INK4A. No association was demonstrated between p16INK4A methylation and serum AFP level in the HCC group."

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"In conclusion, the methylation susceptibility of p16(ink4a) and p19(arf) to carcinogen treatments was remarkably different: X-radiation indirectly induces systemic p16(ink4a) methylation, especially in the intestine; whereas N-nitrosomethylurea and/or H. felis infection induce p19(arf) methylation in their target organs."

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"Aberrant methylation of p16INK4a, FHIT, APC, MLH1, RASSF1, CDKN2A, and DAPK has been associated with lung cancer stage, metastasis, and an increased risk of recurrence after therapy [ xref ]."

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"The BRCA1, APC, p16 and TIMP-3 genes were frequently methylated in ductal carcinoma (60.3, 58.6, 39.3 and 30.9%, respectively)."

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"Methylation of the functionally important genes MLH1 , p16 , and IGFBP7 was the highest in SSAs and was associated with BRAF V600E mutation, CIMP-H, and proximal location."

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"The correlation between p16 INK4a expression and HPV-associated p16 INK4a methylation is shown in xref ."

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"Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed that the CDKN2A gene methylation trended toward a diagnostic indicator in BAVM patients (area under curve = 0.711, p = 0.013)."

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"The authors observed that EGFR mutation had an inverse correlation with promoter methylation of the secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine and p16 genes."

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"Further studies are required to substantiate the role of methylation of P16, DAPK and MGMT as a marker in OSCC."

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"The FHIT methylation is associated with the p16 methylation and smoking in squamous cell carcinoma, suggesting that FHIT may cooperate with p16 for the development of squamous cell carcinoma of lung in individuals exposed to tobacco smoke."

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"A total of 68% of the bronchial lavage samples from the 85 NSCLC patients showed methylation of at least one of p16, RARbeta, H-cadherin, and RASSF1A genes."

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"The patients with both p16 and p15 gene methylation had a poor prognosis."

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"Importantly, CDKN2A methylation was of prognostic relevance in Kaplan–Meier and Cox regression analyses."

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"Hypermethylation of hMLH1 was more frequently observed in MGCs than in SGCs ( p <0.01), whereas significant difference was not observed in the frequency of MGMT , p16 and E-cadherin promoter methylation between the 2 groups."

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"There was no significant correlation between the presence of p16INK4a methylation and response to DHAC therapy or overall survival."

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"Moreover, frequent methylation of p14 (87.5%), hMLH1 (79.2%), DAPK (54.2%), APC (45.8%), and E-cadherin (40.9%) were detected in samples from China (Figure xref )."

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"The methylation of p14 correlated with down-regulation of its protein expression."

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"The P16 and GFRA1 methylation were analyzed using MSP and DHPLC, respectively."

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"HBV infection could affect methylation on p16(INK4A), GSTP1, CDH1(E-cadherin), RASSF1A, p21(WAF1/CIP1) genes, which may play important roles in the development of HCC."

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"Methylation of the p16 gene was detected in sputum from 23 of 66 controls."

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"Results: Among 105 LC cases, HCC incidence rate at 30 months was 30.48% (32/105), which were statistically associated with patients' age and aberrant methylation of p16 , SFRP , and LINE1 ( p <0.05)."

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"Indeed, to our knowledge, this is the first study evaluating the effects of MTHFR genotypes at genetic loci C677T and A1298C on p16 and MGMT gene promoter methylation in OSCC."

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"The aim of this study is to explore associations between CDKN2A methylation status and MIF polymorphisms (rs755622 and rs5844572)."

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"An important study by Belinsky et al . reported aberrant promoter methylation of p16 , which was described to be commonly methylated in lung tumours, xref in at least one bronchial epithelial site from 44% of lung cancer patients examined. xref Moreover, p16 and death-associated protein kinase (DAPK) promoter methylation was observed frequently in bronchial epithelium from current and former smoker but not from never-smoker lung cancer patients and persisted after smoking cessation."

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"These findings on CDKN2A methylation have not been reported previously, and further studies to clarify the mechanism and association are needed."

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"In this study we examined methylation of DCC, KIF1A, EDNRB, and p16(INK4a) in a large cohort of HNC patients from Eastern Cooperative Group (ECOG) 4393/Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 9614 to identify clinical correlates of methylation of these genes."

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"This canine study revealed no significant change in global or CDKN2A (p14ARF) specific methylation in pretreatment and post-5-azaC PBMC or iUC samples, as assessed by LUMA and MSP."

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"When methylation of these genes is combined with p53 mutational status, the presence of p16 methylation conveyed a significant incremental improvement in survival for tumors with a disruptive p53 mutation (p=0.019)."

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"A total of 50 lung cancer tissues and 54 normal lung tissues were examined for p16 gene methylation in exon 1 and deletion in exon 2 by PCR based methylation analysis and duplex PCR respectively."

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"The tumor suppressor genes p15(INK)⁴(b) and p16(INK)⁴(a) as well as the estrogen receptor-α (ESR1) gene are abnormally methylated and expressed in colon cancer."

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"Three cases had concomitant methylation of p15 and p16 at relapse."

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"A similar nonsignificant trend was noted for p16 methylation."

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"The methylation of p16(CDKN2A) and HPV-16 was associated with ED gradation (p = 0.001 and 0.002, respectively)."

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"CDKN2A methylation also exhibited prognostic significance."

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"Its methylation was seen in one case, the case without the methylated p16 gene."

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"Importantly, p16(INK) (4A) methylation correlated with increased melanoma thickness according to Breslow index (P = 0.0495) and marginally with increased Clark level (I/II vs III/IV/V, P = 0.070)."

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"Seventeen out of 42 patients (40.5%) had the methylated p16 gene, while methylation of the DAPK gene was seen in 27 of 42 cases (64.3%)."

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"Although no statistically significant association was found between CDKN2A gene methylation and EBV-positive tumors ( P = 0.222), EBV-positive tumors showed higher mean methylation levels, suggestin[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Predictors of a poor outcome in patients with NET are poor differentiation, a high Ki-67 index and p16 methylation."

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"In addition, increased methylation of p16 was observed in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma [ xref ], and in normal oral mucosa [ xref ], in smokers."

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"No methylated p16 sequences were detected in the peripheral plasma/serum of the six HCC cases without these changes in the tumor, in 38 patients with chronic hepatitis/cirrhosis, or in 10 healthy control subjects."

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"As shown in Table xref , based on the methylation of normal blood, a total of 9 eligible studies were included, this meta-analysis of p16 methylation was involved in 315 benign disease and 197 normal bloods."

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"DNA from the Raji Burkitt cell line was used as a positive control of p16 methylation."

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"To detect the promoter methylation of p16, survivin, and Rb genes, peripheral blood samples from 106 gastric cancer patients as well as 18 healthy individuals were collected for Methylation-Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction (MSP) analysis."

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"These findings suggest that the methylation of the p16 gene could be a relevant oncogenic event in the monoclonal gammopathies evolution being associated with the most aggressive forms."

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"Methylation of CDKN2A was not significantly different between the high and low expressing groups ( xref )."

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"Finally, we tested whether HPV-16/18 or the dmt3b (C46359T) polymorphism is associated with p16(CDKN2A) methylation status."

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"P14ARF methylation was found in a lower percentage of PCA specimens and in none of the samples of patients with CP."

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"Later, AAH lesions were shown to exhibit LOH of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)-associated regions, activation of telomerase, loss of LKB1 , overexpression of DICER, a key effector protein for small interfering RNA and miRNA function, and DNA methylation of CDKN2A and PTPRN2 . xref , xref , xref It is important to note that several studies have attempted to globally comprehend differential gene expression patterns and copy-number alterations between low-grade lesions (e.g. precursor lesions) or in situ adenocarcinomas and invasive tumours and found that amplification of the EGFR oncogene was the predominant differential molecular feature between the two different adenocarcinoma grade classes and occurred after mutations in the gene. xref Importantly, as will be discussed in the next section of this review, EGFR mutations also preceded changes in copy number of the gene when studying histologically normal bronchiolar epithelia. xref "

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"We found a relationship between APC methylation and good histological differentiation (p =0.03); CDH1 methylation with diffuse type by Lauren and 3 or more metastasic lymph nodes (p <0.05); FHIT, CDKN2A and CDH1 methylation and female condition (p <0.04)."

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"The mechanisms contributing to the difference in stability of p16 methylation between gastritis and cancer cells is unknown."

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"As one pathway to obesity has been suggested to involve fetal undernutrition followed by rapid postnatal weight gain, we used longitudinal measurements of fetal growth from the SWS cohort to derive conditional abdominal growth velocity in late gestation and related this to cord CDKN2A methylation."

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"In fact, it is undergone to develop the aberrant p16 methylation as a prognosis predictor for precancerous lesions xref , xref ."

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"In contrast to KLK6, there was little methylation of p16 at each point, ranging from 1 to 5%, indicating that the variability in KLK6 methylation is not likely to be an artifact."

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"As the status of p16INK4A methylation was not associated with serum AFP level, it may have a complementary role with AFP as a tumor marker of HCC."

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"These data suggest that DNA methylation of the p16 gene in some breast tumours could be the result of an active process that generates a discrete methylation pattern and, hence, could ultimately be amenable to theraputic manipulation. © 1999 Cancer Research Campaign"

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"Moreover, p16INK4a methylation was correlated with loss of p16INK4a expression by immunohistochemistry."

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"Clinicopathological analysis revealed that p16 methylation in serum was significantly associated with later Dukes' stage (P = 0.03)."

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"To seek the possibility that this technique could be applied to the monitoring of cancer recurrence, we examined the p16 methylation using MSP."

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"Promoter methylation of p14(ARF) was found in 13/51 cases (25%) and p16(INK4a) showed aberrant promoter methylation in 39/51 cases (76%) which correlated with loss of mRNA transcription."

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"Our results reinforced the notion that P16 methylation was a frequent and early event in ESCC development. xref We observed a significant increase in the P16 methylation frequency from no dysplasia to ESCC, which is at the same level as other findings. xref , xref Notably, we found that P16 methylation in cytology specimens was more sensitive than that in biopsy specimens for diagnosing ESCC and ESCdys, although the differences at each stage of ESCC development indicated no significant difference."

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"In secondary tumors, promoter methylation of the MGMT, P16, DAPK, PTEN, RASSF1A, and RB1 genes was detected in 52.4%, 28.6%, 38.1%, 61.9%, 66.7% and 28.6%, an addition of 3 (14.3%), 2 (9.5%), 0 (0%), 6 (28.6%), 0 (0%) and 3 (14.3%) cases, respectively."

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"The presence or absence of methylation of the p16INK4a gene did not correlate with clinical characteristics of the gastrinoma, biological behavior (gastrin release and basal or maximal acid output), the presence or absence of known prognostic factors (tumor size, gastrinoma location, lymph node metastases, liver metastases, and curability), or growth pattern of the gastrinoma postresection."

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"The aim of our study was to investigate the effects of Cr(IV) on cell cycle progress, global DNA methylation, and DNA methylation of p16 gene."

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"Similarly, promoter methylation of p16 ( CDKN2A ) and GATA4 in sputum DNA from smokers showed significant correlation with decline in lung function [ xref ]."

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"In conclusion, aging decreases genomic DNA methylation and increases promoter methylation and expression of p16 in mouse colons."

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"More importantly, overexpression of the DNMT3a collaborates with PML–RARalpha to promote APL leukaemogenesis in vivo ( xref ), and aberrant DNA methylation in p15 and p16 genes has negative prognostic impact in APL patients ( xref ; xref ), suggesting a critical role of aberrant DNA methylation in APL pathogenesis."

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"A recent study examined INK4A methylation via pyrosequencing, using circulating cell-free DNA from blood samples of 66 HCC patients and 43 controls with chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis ( xref ) ( xref )."

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"However, levels in plasma DNA and microsatellite alterations in lung cancer or p16 promoter methylation in esophageal cancer are not correlated with stage."

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"P16 methylation is positively correlated with high sensitivity of cancer cells to palbociclib."

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"We compared cells from a late passage (p32) in which CDKN2A is methylated and silenced, to cells from an early passage (p18) which are unmethylated and express p16 ( xref A)."

sparser
"These results indicate that MGMT and/or p16 aberrant methylation may play an important role in colorectal cancer."

sparser
"Moreover, Toyota et al. examined the promoter methylation of p16 gene in colorectal cancer and found that 20/50 (40%) colorectal cancers showed methylation [21] ."

sparser
"We detected aberrant promoter methylation of the p16INK4a gene in 16 (40%), of p14ARF in 6 (15%), and of p15INK4b in 5 (12.5%) tumor samples."

sparser
"Poor survival was related to methylation of p14."

sparser
"P14 ARF methylation was also significantly associated with MDM2 overexpression ( P =  0.0223) (Table  xref )."

sparser
"Our findings indicate CDKN2A methylation is involved in the carcinogenesis, progression, and metastasis of HNSCC."

sparser
"Furthermore, our molecular genetic investigations revealed a methylation of the cell cycle control gene p16, which is localized on chromosome 9p."

sparser
"Consistent with this hypothesis, CpC islands located 5′ of p21 and Ink4 were fully methylated in sphere-derived colonies at passage 15 ( xref )."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 was significantly associated with pack-years smoked (P = 0.007; Wilcoxon rank sum test), duration of smoking (P = 0.0009; Wilcoxon rank sum test), and negatively with the time since quitting smoking (P = 0.03; Wilcoxon rank sum test)."

sparser
"The results indicate that p16 methylation is a more common event in those younger than 40 years in contrast to p16 deletions, which are more common in those older than 40 years."

sparser
"Histone modification and DNA methylation of MGMT, BRCA-1, and P16 were assessed in a sample of Iranian breast cancer patients."

sparser
"The methylation of p16 and H-cadherin is associated with the early recurrence of stage I non-small cell lung carcinoma [ xref ]."

sparser
"Results were correlated with aberrant methylation of the CDKN2A (alias p16(INK4A)), retinoic acid receptor beta (RARB), methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), and death-associated-protein (DAP) kinase genes in the tumors."

sparser
"As P16 methylation can directly inactivate gene transcription [ xref ], we found that similar to cell lines with P16 deletion, P16 -methylated cancer cell lines were more sensitive to palbociclib than P16 -unmethylated cell lines."

sparser
"Correlation between p16 methylation and PCa in cancer versus different control types."

sparser
"Our findings suggest that only p16 methylation may have a higher frequency in PCa than in benign prostatic lesions."

sparser
"Multivariable analysis was used to analyze the relationship between p16 methylation and age, gender, cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and Helicobacter pylori infection."

sparser
"Frequency of methylation in plasma cell dyscrasias has been described by other groups (), and more recently by Chim C.S. (), however the role of p16 methylation in monoclonal gammopathies pathogenesi[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"In our analysis, only p16 INK4a methylation of the five genes that were frequently methylated in lung cancer was significantly correlated with poor prognosis in patients with lung adenocarcinoma."

sparser
"CDKN2A methylation is robustly detected by pyrosequencing, even at low levels, suggesting that this unfavorable prognostic biomarker warrants investigation in prospective studies."

sparser
"A previous study [ xref ] found increased methylation of CDKN2A and APC and decreased methylation of the LINE-1 repetitive sequence in the lungs of rats exposed to PM from vehicle smoke."

sparser
"In normal parotid tissue, methylation of p14 ARF or p16 INK4a was not observed."

sparser
"These results suggest that the aberrant p16INK4A RNA transcript can be transcribed from the methylated p16INK4A gene, and endogenous reactivation of functional p16INK4A mRNA by a demethylating agent can restore the pRB pathway in HCC, and foster the terminal differentiation of the malignant cells."

sparser
"The frequencies (approximately equaled probability) of p16 methylation in blood were gradually increased from 0 % (0/257) in normal to 10 % (42/464) in benign disease, and to 60 % (370 /617) in HCC."

sparser
"Also in urine sediments, methylation in p14ARF , p16INK4A , RASSF1A , DAPK , and APC showed a correlation with BC grade and stage ( xref )."

sparser
"Promoter methylation of CDKN2A was infrequently detected in BE samples, while SFRP1 methylation was observed in all samples."

sparser
"Associations of p16 methylation with the following outcomes were observed: gastric oncogenesis (p < 0.00001); intestinal metaplasia (p = 0.002); poor histological differentiation (p = 0.03); local invasion (p = 0.001); lymph node dissemination (p = 0.03); more advanced TNM staging (p = 0.01); and Epstein Barr virus infection (p < 0.00001)."

sparser
"Only 1/6 tumors that expressed p16 INK4a mRNA presented CDKN2A methylation but at low methylation level (5.4%)."

sparser
"We analysed 64 primary lung carcinomas for promoter methylation of the tumour suppressor genes (TSGs) p16 (p16(INK4a)/CDKN2A) and p14 (p14(ARF)) by methylation-specific PCR, in order to evaluate aberrant methylation as a potential biomarker for epigenetic alterations in tobacco-related lung cancer."

sparser
"The survival rates among adenocarcinoma patients with p16(INK4a) methylation were lower, but at a level of borderline significance compared with those patients without methylation (p = 0.071)."

sparser
"Multivariate analysis suggested that CDKN2A gene methylation was individually related to OS (P = 0.004)."

sparser
"These preliminary findings suggest that P16 methylation may be a potential biomarker for non‐endoscopic ESCC screening."

sparser
"Engineered zinc finger protein-targeted P16 DNA methylation directly inactivates P16 expression and promotes invasion and metastasis of cancer cells."

sparser
"Loss of p73 expression through aberrant methylation of the p73 promoter occurs specifically in EBV-associated GC, together with the global methylation of p14 and p16."

sparser
"Our gene prevalences for p16, MGMT, DAPK , and RASSF1A methylation in serum are very similar to that observed by xref in their study of serum from all stages of NSCLC and in our previous study of lung cancer survivors that examined free DNA recovered from plasma ( xref )."

sparser
"Taioli et al. studied the methylation of CDKN2A , MGMT , and RASSF1 in correlation with OS and tumor recurrence in OSCC and OPSCC."

sparser
"In oral carcinomas, methylation of the p16 and MGMT genes are frequently observed as an early event (Kato et al. xref )."

sparser
"We further evaluated the relative contribution of p16 INK4a methylation (MtL >25%) in patients below 65 years of age using Cox proportional hazards analysis."

sparser
"There was no relationship between CDKN2A methylation and the evolutionary character of the lesions."

sparser
"Subgroup analysis of p16 promoter methylation."

sparser
"There was no association between ln-transformed urinary or blood cadmium concentrations and p16 or MLH1 methylation ( xref )."

sparser
"We analyzed the CDKN2A methylation status in primary colorectal cancers using real-time methylation specific PCR (MethyLight) which enables quantitative measuring of the methylation level."

sparser
"We first discovered that the p16 protein was methylated in various cell lineages."

sparser
"In the proximal colon cancer network, MSI was positively correlated with MLH1 methylation (correlation coefficient [ρ] = 0.77), CACNA1G methylation (ρ = 0.55), RUNX3 methylation (ρ = 0.50), SOCS1 methylation (ρ = 0.49), IGF2 methylation (ρ = 0.46), CRABP1 methylation (ρ = 0.45), BRAF mutation (ρ = 0.44), TIL (ρ = 0.41), NEUROG1 methylation (ρ = 0.37), Crohn’s-like reaction (ρ = 0.37), CDKN2A methylation (ρ = 0.33), abundance of Fusobacterium nucleatum (ρ = 0.33), SIRT1 overexpression (ρ = 0.25), loss of CDX2 expression (ρ = 0.25), CCND1 overexpression (ρ = 0.25), LINE-1 methylation (ρ = 0.24), peritumoral lymphocytic reaction (ρ = 0.24), MIR155 expression (ρ = 0.22), and intratumoral periglandular reaction (ρ = 0.22)."

sparser
"Our hypothesis was that p16 test feedback would increase perceptions of lung cancer risk in smokers with methylated p16 ."

sparser
"The aim of this study is to study the role of p16INK4a gene promoter methylation and p16 expression in tumor progression (dedifferentiation) and recurrence of ALT/WDLPS."

sparser
"The results of a study from Japan have shown that alteration of the deleted in lung cancer 1 (DLC1) gene may be involved in development of ESCC. xref According to other studies, changes in the p16INK4a and p15INK4b genes have been found in 68% and 50% of ESCC patients, which suggests these changes are important in the pathogenesis of ESCC. xref Guo et al. have also found frequent methylation of the p16INK4a gene in ESCC patients. xref "

sparser
"Results showed that the frequency of p16 methylation in PTC was 27% ( p  < 0.05), which suggests that it is a frequent molecular biology occurrence in PTC, probably resulting in tumorigenesis as an ac[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Moreover, the authors found the methylation of CDKN2A as a negative prognostic factor for overall survival of rectal cancer patients [ xref ]."

sparser
"It has been reported that INK4A promoter methylation was associated with HCC metastasis [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"They successfully showed that methylation of AR, DBCCR1, IRF7, OCT6, p73, and p16 were associated with late stage HCC [ xref ]."

sparser
"Thus, a sensitivity of 20.6% and a specificity of 100% in regard to the detection of malignancy has been shown for p14 promoter methylation ( xref , xref and xref )."

sparser
"The overall incidence of methylation of p14 and p16 was four of 49 (8%) for each of the genes, respectively."

sparser
"EGFR mutation has an inverse correlation with methylation of the p16INK4a gene and SPARC (secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine), an extracellular Ca2+-binding glycoprotein associated with the regulation of cell adhesion and growth [41]."
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sparser
"However, there were no correlations of p16 promoter methylation with the TNM stage and Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection of GC (Tumor size: OR = 0.76, 95% CI: 0.14-4.07, P = 0.746; HP infection: OR = 1.31, 95% CI: 0.75-2.27, P = 0.342; respectively)."

sparser
"The p16 methylation in NSCLC was more common in smokers than in non-smokers."

sparser
"To study the action, characteristics and expression of high methylation of p15(INK4B) and p16(INK4A) genes in multiple myeloma (MM), the sensitive methylation specific PCR method was employed to detect the hypermethylation of p15(INK4B) and p16(INK4A) in 24 patients with MM."

sparser
"Recent reports have also suggested that methylation of the p16 and p15 genes is a primary mechanism of inactivation of these genes in hematological malignancies [23–25] ."

sparser
"In contrast, this prognostic effect was strengthened by the joint presence of CDKN2A methylation and KRAS mutations, which independently predicted recurrence of cancer and was associated with poor overall and cancer-specific survival."

sparser
"Esteller M, Tortola S, Toyota M, Capella G, Peinado MA, Baylin SB, Herman JG (2000) Hypermethylation-associ- ated inactivation of p14(ARF) is independent of p16(INK4a) methylation and p53 mutational s[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Recently, it is demonstrated that methylation of p16 is an early event in squamous cell carcinoma at the laryngopharyngeal region, implying that methylated p16 may have a clinical value in screening patients with early laryngeal carcinoma [ xref ]."

sparser
"However, our study included only eight AML patients, in contrast to the study of Melki et al. [6] that analyzed 20 patients and this may explain why we do not observe methylation of p16 in AML."

sparser
"There were no correlations between p16 protein expression and promoter methylation of the p16 gene in either benign or malignant components."

sparser
"Similarly, another report showed a sensitivity of 75% of detecting methylated p16 in 12 patients in whom the promoter was methylated in tissue [ xref ]."

sparser
"We have used bisulphite genomic sequencing to examine the detailed sequence specificity of DNA methylation in the CpG island promoter/exon 1 region in the p16 gene in DNA from a series of human breast cancer specimens and normal human breast tissue (from reductive mammaplasty)."

sparser
"INK4a methylation revealed a 100% specificity for malignant pancreatic disease in this study."

sparser
"Studies have shown that methylation in the promoter regions of the human p15 and p16 genes was associated with cervical cancer and significantly inhibited transcription of the p16 gene [ xref ]."

sparser
"For example, Palmisano et al reported that aberrant methylation of the p16 and MGMT was detected in sputum of all patients with squamous cell lung carcinoma up to 3 years before clinical diagnosis."

sparser
"Furthermore, the predictive capacity of base model for ESCC and HGIN was significantly increased by adding P16 methylation in cytology specimens, but not P16 methylation in biopsy specimens."

sparser
"Lack of a wild-type NADPH quinone oxidoreductase allele (C at bp 609) was also associated with methylation of either p16 or MGMT (OR, 3.1; 95% CI, 1.0-9.2)."

sparser
"The rate of p16 methylation in chromate lung cancer was constant, irrespective of the Brinkman index."

sparser
"Using the control group, the presence of methylated p16(INK4a) in the serum of individuals with suspicion of bladder cancer was found to be associated with the tumour presence (p=0.0009)."

sparser
"In our study, we found an inverse association between the likelihood of p16 promoter methylation and lifetime alcohol consumption among postmenopausal women with breast cancer; the associations with alcohol were stronger for drinking before the age of 40."

sparser
"It may also be that p16 methylation represents partial abrogation of cell cycle control, sufficient for tumorigenesis but with less virulent tumor behavior as a result."

sparser
"Various studies suggest radiation, genetic instability within the tumor, and increased expression of the cytoplasm of p16 protein by promotor methylation of the p16 gene may all contribute [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"This analysis presents pooled estimates of the association to better elucidate whether p16 methylation has a prognostic role in NSCLC."

sparser
"Perri et al. showed that promoter methylation of CDKN2A is linked to H. pylori -associated gastric carcinogenesis."

sparser
"Methylation of tumor suppressor p16 is a prognostic indicator in lung cancer and so far a potential association between p16 expression and miR-29b expression has not been investigated ( xref )."

sparser
"Aberrant promoter methylation of P16(INK4a) , SOCS-1 , RASSF1A , APC , GSTP1 , RIZ1 , and MGMT is commonly reported in epigenetic studies of HCC [ xref – xref ]."

sparser
"Of the 22 patients who had undergone cystectomy, 8 (36.4%) manifested p16(INKa) methylation; p16(INK4a) was not methylated in 23 patients without cystectomy (p=0.002)."

sparser
"Maximum methylation in RUNX3, CDKN2A, SOCS1, and NEUROG1 genes was significantly different between patients and controls."

sparser
"Aberrant P16 methylation was found in 7 of the 22 (31.8%) in Group I, in 3 of 12 (25%) in Group II, and in 1 of 16 (6.25%) in Group III."

sparser
"The frequency of CDKN2A methylation was also significantly higher in PanINs patients than that in normal individual controls, OR = 12.35, 95% CI = 1.70–89.89, P = 0.01."

sparser
"It is also noteworthy that p16 gene methylation is not the sole determinant of p16 expression (Keyes et al., 2007)."

sparser
"011), but p16 methylation had a similar OR value in PCa and adjacent normal tissue samples or HGPIN."

sparser
"Studies including subgroup evaluations have demonstrated that aberrant CDKN2A methylation was significantly correlated to a poor prognosis xref , xref , even though the finding of Sanz-Casla et al . demonstrated an inconsistent result xref ."

sparser
"We studied, by pyrosequencing, the methylation of tumor suppressor gene p16 , DNA repair genes MLH1 and MGMT , and the repetitive element LINE-1 (as a surrogate for global DNA methylation), in blood of elderly individuals ( n  = 249) who had been exposed to folic acid (FA) through FA-fortified wheat flour during the last 12 years."

sparser
"P16 Methylation was detectable in oral epithelial dysplasia lesions from 32 (41.0%) of 78 enrolled patients."

sparser
"In contrast, the association of cyclin D1 with p27 loss, p16 loss, CDKN2A (p16) methylation, p14 methylation or p53 expression did not persist after stratification by MSI status (data not shown)."

sparser
"In normal colonic mucosa, however, the methylation level of LINE-1 repeats was inversely correlated with CpG-island methylation of the MLH1, P16, TIMP3, APC, ER and MYOD genes."

sparser
"Concurrent methylation in NEUROG1 and CDKN2A (p16) was found in 39 patients (7.9 %)."

sparser
"There is no reason to suppose, however, that relationships between CDKN2A promoter methylation in umbilical cord and childhood bone mineral accrual would differ between these two groups."

sparser
"As summarized in xref , several studies have evaluated the use of circulating INK4A methylation to improve the diagnosis of HCC."

sparser
"Downregulation and aberrant promoter methylation of p16INK4A: a possible novel heritable susceptibility marker to retinoblastoma."

sparser
"Failure to detect CDKN2A promoter methylation in this study can be reconciled with the results of the larger studies described above based simply on insufficient sample size."

sparser
"This study demonstrated that p16(INK4a) methylation served as the silencing mechanism of p16(INK4a) protein expression and played a crucial role in the intraductal proliferative lesions' progression."

sparser
"P16 hypermethylation could be detected in each stage, which is consistent with the finding that aberrant methylation of p16 is a very early event in lung carcinogenesis [14] ."

sparser
"In addition, the effects of FHIT and p16 gene methylation on the diagnostic accuracy of liver cancer were calculated."

sparser
"In summary, our results demonstrate that the abrogation of p16Ink4a expression by either Bmi-1 induction or p16Ink4a methylation may be associated with cancer development in the presence of high lev[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Moreover, Pierini et al. described that traditional risk factors (tobacco and alcohol consumption) affect epigenetic modification of specific genes in laryngeal carcinomas, underlining the implication of CDKN2A and MLH1 promoter methylation in invasion of lymph nodes with cancer cells [ xref ]."

sparser
"The promoter methylation of RASSF1A,p16, and DAPK genes were not detected in patients with pulmonary benign lesion."

sparser
"Furthermore, many viewed p16 methylation as a fair predictive marker for developing lung cancer ( xref )."

sparser
"Together, these findings revealed that miR-217 promotes fibroblasts senescence by suppressing DNMT1-mediated methylation of p16 and pRb by targeting the DNMT1 3′-UTR."

sparser
"A study analyzing promoter methylation of 15 candidate genes (Steinmann et al. xref ) in tumors and matched normal tissue from patients with HNSCC has shown that methylation of the p16 , MGMT , DAPK , RARβ , hMLH1 , CDH1 , RASSF2 , RASSF5 , and MST1 genes was significantly more frequent in the tumors than the normal tissue (Steinmann et al. xref )."

sparser
"Here, we performed a meta-analysis to generate a quantitative estimate of the association of CDKN2A methylation with EC risk and its role in EC carcinogenesis."

sparser
"P16 promoter methylation was noted in 4 (17%) of the 24 cases of HNSCC ( Fig. 1 )."

sparser
"The p16 ( INK4a ) methylation was significantly associated with poor overall and disease-free survival in 131 rectal cancer patients who underwent curative operation, according to multivariate analyses (relative risk [RR] = 0.317 and 0.349; P = ."

sparser
"However, this view was challenged by detection of p14 ARF methylation in normal colon mucosa from patients with CRC and from healthy people without clinical evidence of colon cancer [ xref , xref , xref ]."

sparser
"A recent report suggested that alteration of chromosome arm 9p and methylation of the p16 gene may be factors in early pituitary tumorigenesis [35] ."

sparser
"Forty-four of 94 (47%) cancer DNAs exhibited abnormal promoter methylation of p16 gene."

sparser
"This may partly explain the association between P16 INK4A methylation and P53 expression."

sparser
"Methylation of the p16 gene has been associated with development of several types of cancer, particularly lung cancer."

sparser
"In this study, we investigated if methylation of the INK4 family of CKIs and Rb1 might contribute to lymphomagenesis of MCL and FL."

sparser
"Our results revealed that the frequency of p16 gene methylation in carcinoma tissues was significantly higher than adjacent tissues (the overall OR = 5.10, 95% CI = 3.81–6.84, p < 0.00001)."

sparser
"For instance, p16 methylation was found in 2.7% of normal gastric epithelium (n = 36), 16.7% of chronic atrophy gastritis (n = 24), 37.5% of dysplasia (n = 24), 67.4% of gastric adenoma (n = 43), and 85.2% of gastric carcinoma (n = 27)."

sparser
"Homozygous deletion of the INK4A/ARF locus and methylation of INK4A was detected in 3 (10%) and 2 (7%) cases, respectively."

sparser
"P16 methylation was detected in 42% of the tumors."

sparser
"The epigenetic analysis revealedp16 INK4A or RASSF1a methylation in 16 samples and none from patients who developed lung cancer."

sparser
"P16 methylation was detected in 65 of 88 (74%) samples."

sparser
"On the other hand, the methylation of AIM1 , ESR1 , and p14ARF seems to be specific to tumor samples because no hypermethylation was detected in the control samples ( xref )."

sparser
"Aberrant promoter methylation of p16 and p14 genes was detected in 43 of 86 (50%) and 25 of 86 (29%) colorectal cancers, respectively."

sparser
"P16 Methylation positively correlated with the existence of H. pylori in normal/gastritis."

sparser
"Woloshak et al observed decreased expression of p16 in pituitary adenomas compared with normal pituitaries, and they showed that this decreased expression is due to increased methylation of the p16 ge[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"The association among various factors, such as promoter methylation of p16, hMLH1, and MGMT, and clinical and pathologic parameters were analyzed with the crosstable chi-square test."

sparser
"One study reported the relationship between p14 methylation and clinical stage,[ xref ]but the other studies showed no association.[ xref , xref ] p14 methylation was negatively associated with GS by Verdoodt 2011 et al,[ xref ]while no correlation was reported among the remaining 4 studies.[ xref , xref , xref , xref ]The results demonstrated that p14 methylation was not linked to clinical stage and GS of patients with PCa."

sparser
"Methylation-specific PCR was used to detect p16 methylation in DNA extracted from 52 CRCs and corresponding serum samples."

sparser
"A two-step MSPCR method for assaying p14(ARF) methylation in human tumors is described."

sparser
"Therefore, p16 methylation seems to have no correlation with angiogenesis and VEGF expression, neither with overall and event-free survival in MM patients."

sparser
"Overview of the p16 INK4A promotor methylation pat- tern in different histological subtypes of thyroid tumors."

sparser
"For example, analysis of RASSF1A, p16 INK4A and APC methylation in bronchial aspirates showed that cytology, quantitative MSP and histology could detect lung cancer in 44%, 53% and 59% of cases respectively, yet when combined diagnostic sensitivity extended to 81% (69/85) of patients xref ."

sparser
"For example, aberrant methylation of p16 is associated with smoking duration in primary NSCLC [ xref ]."

sparser
"Materials and methods: We analyzed the methylation of P16INK4a and P14ARF in 80 tissues and matched blood samples of patients suffering from bladder cancer and 80 blood samples of cancer-free individuals by MS-PCR."

sparser
"In vitro , decitabine was shown to reverse the inactivation of p16 in lung cancer cell lines by removing the transcriptional block of p16 methylation (Merlo et al., xref )."

sparser
"Noteworthy, p16INK4A methylation was significantly associated with miscarriage among female attendants (p = 0.047), in which those who reported miscarriage exhibited hypermethylation in at least 2 of the 3 genes analyzed."

sparser
"We observed induction of p16 mRNA for both low- and high-dose 5-aza in tumor lines that harbor p16 promoter methylation ( xref A and xref B)."

sparser
"Only one study in TNM stages I–IV showed a statistically significant association between CDKN2A methylation and outcome (HR 1.66 95% CI 1.2–2.3) [ xref ]."

sparser
"Similar results were also described for p16 , hMLH1 and TSLC1 methylation in gastric cancer ( xref ; xref ; xref )."

sparser
"In order to enable most DNA samples methylation-informative after adjustment of input DNA, we selected 1.6% as the cutoff proportion of methylated P16 to definite a P16 methylation-positive sample (the minimum required total DNA, 38 ng; 9.4 ng/MethyLight reaction, two reactions for methylated- P16 and two reactions for the COL2A1 reference)."

sparser
"Relation of p14 and p16 promoter methylation."

sparser
"It should be noted that P16 methylation alone was inadequate for ESCC screening, but these results provided preliminary evidence for the feasibility of methylated genes as cytologic markers for ESCC screening."

sparser
"Further evaluation in a larger sample of patients is needed in order to enhance our statistical power and to test our hypothesis that CDKN2A methylation status can become a useful prognostic biomarker."

sparser
"In order to establish the influence of other common genetic abnormalities in lung tumor formation in the animals, K-Ras gene mutation and p16INK4a (p16) promoter methylation were evaluated in a total of 281 transgenic mice and 189 non-transgenic littermates."

sparser
"We chose NOK cells as our model of the precancerous field since they harbor two common genetic alterations in HNSCC and preneoplastic mucosa, mutant TP53 and CDKN2A promoter methylation, but do not form tumors xref , xref ."

sparser
"The above analyses revealed that p16 promoter methylation was not correlated with HCC progression, metastasis, and prognosis."

sparser
"Methylation of p14 ARF and p16 INK4a was often present in the same primary tumors, but association to diploidy, MSI, right-sided location and female gender was only significant for p14 ARF ."

sparser
"We also observed that the levels of Cu, Pb, Se, Mn, and Ti decreased during the fifth day of exposure, and only lead, titanium and copper showed a low significant correlation with the methylation level mean for three specific CpG sites of the CDKN2A . Conclusions: In summary, the data suggest that altered levels of CDKN2A methylation in construction workers may be a potential biomarker of recent exposure in this environment."

sparser
"However, for all DNA samples without methylation of the p16 or p15 gene, no PCR products of either gene were amplified after complete digestion with methylation-sensitive enzyme ( Figs."

sparser
"De novo p16INK4a promoter methylation was detected in 43.2% of specimens from patients with pancreatic carcinoma."

sparser
"When OSCC tissues were tested for the presence ofp16 INK4A methylation, 12–88% of the OSCC cases revealed evidence for aberrant methylation of this tumor suppressor gene [ xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref – xref ]."

sparser
"Although reported rates for p16 methylation were variable, p16 MSP was regarded as a useful molecular marker for use in early detection and prediction of lung cancer."

sparser
"However, in tumors with disruptive TP53 mutation, methylation of CDKN2A was protective."

sparser
"P14 methylation showed a higher frequency in PCa than in urine samples without cancer,[ xref ]but another study demonstrated a similar frequency in PCa and control urine samples without cancer.[ xref ]Our results showed that p14 methylation was not associated with PCa in the urine."

sparser
"CDKN2A methylation was significantly associated with old age (p<0.0001), proximal tumor location (p<0.0001), disease stage (p=0.0009), microsatellite instability (MSI) (p<0.0001), and the CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) (p<0.0001) ( xref )."

sparser
"GSEA analysis in CDKN2A gene methylation."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 , a rare event in primary ALL xref , xref , has been shown to be present in pediatric cases with MLL alterations xref ."

sparser
"However, the prognostic values of GSTP1 , p16 , ESR1 , and PITX2 promoter methylation in breast cancer remain to be determined."

sparser
"Kondo et al.[ xref ] investigated p16 methylation using a methylation-specific PCR method in 30 lung cancer cases associated with chromate exposure and 38 non-chromate lung cancers."

sparser
"Of the eligible studies, 17 studies evaluated the relationship between p16 methylation and PCa in cancer versus different control groups.[ xref – xref , xref , xref , xref , xref – xref ]12 studies including 748 patients with PCa assessed the correlation of p16 methylation with the clinicopathological characteristics of PCa.[ xref , xref , xref , xref , xref – xref , xref – xref , xref , xref ]Seven publications analyzed the correlation between p14 methylation and PCa.[ xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref ]The basic characteristics of the eligible publications are listed in Table S1."

sparser
"This paper examines methylation in p16, p15, E-cadherin and the VHL tumour suppressor genes."

sparser
"A putative germ-line methylation of the CDKN2A, if any, is therefore likely to be a rare event in hereditary melanoma."

sparser
"One worker with methylated p14 ARF and five of those with p15 INK4b methylation had a PCR product corresponding to the unmethylated DNA sequence ( xref )."

sparser
"The association between CDH1 and ER methylation observed here ( Table 3 ) has been reported previously [32,38] , however, to our knowledge this is the first report of an association between methy[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"The incidence of methylation of p14ARF and p16INK4a was two of 35 (6%) and one of 35 (3%), respectively."

sparser
"To evaluate the expression and promoter methylation of p16 gene in HR-HPV infected squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix."

sparser
"Many other studies also suggested that P14 ARF methylation was higher in liver cancer tissue than in normal tissue [ xref – xref ]."

sparser
"The rate (82%) of p16 methylation in OSCC patients with lymph node metastasis was significantly high than that (32%) of OSCC patients without lymph nodes metastasis."

sparser
"In addition, we found that GC patients with p16 methylation often displayed a poor prognosis."

sparser
"Methylation of CDKN2A , a tumour suppressor gene, is detected in 40% of colorectal cancers and has been found also in colorectal adenoma."

sparser
"P16 methylation was detected in five of 15 adenomas and eight of 14 carcinomas (45% of all tumors)."

sparser
"The positive relationship between p16 methylation and the clinical characteristics of gastric carcinomas (GC) has not been reported to date."

sparser
"Our analysis showed that postoperative disappearance of p16 methylation was associated with a better survival rate of patients in the AGC group."

sparser
"P16 methylation was linked to KRAS mutation but was mutually exclusive with EGFR mutation."

sparser
"Finally, in view of previous reports that p16 mutation is associated with an inferior prognosis in MCL [26] , the OS in patients with and without p16 methylation was studied."

sparser
"With the working years and urinary 1-OH-Py's level, the rates of p14(ARK) and p16(INK4a) gene methylation were significantly increased while that of p15(INK4b) gene methylation displayed no statistical change."

sparser
"Additional studies reported similar frequencies of p16 methylation of 27% (16/60), albeit others have reported lower frequencies of approximately 5–10% [ xref – xref ]."

sparser
"Methylation of CCNA1 , CYGB , and p16 genes has also been correlated with the clinicopathological parameters in oral cancer (Shaw et al. xref )."

sparser
"Ninety consecutive patients with acute promyelocytic leukaemia were investigated for promoter methylation of CDKN2B (alias p15) and CDKN2A (alias p16) in disease relapse and progression."

sparser
"Regardless of the HPV type, most participants with LSIL did not exhibit methylation of p16 INK4A . There was not a statistically significant difference between the HPV subtype and the presence of meth[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"The methylation of p16 and COL1A2 were independent prognostic factors for poor survival in laryngeal cancer (hazard ratio: 4.55; p = 0.013 and 3.12; p = 0.035, respectively)."

sparser
"As data demonstrated, patients' age and aberrant methylation of p16 , SFRP1 , and LINE1 were statistically related with HCC development among the 105 high-risk individuals."

sparser
"In reactions using methylation-specific primers, no band for methylated CDKN2A was observed in the fenofibrate-treated group."

sparser
"PRMT6 can also interact with p16, overexpression of PRMT6 can counteract the cell cycle arrest at G1 phase caused by p16 in NSCLC A549 cells and decrease the association intensity of p16-CDK4, suggesting that PRMT6 probably achieves its cell apoptosis restraint role in NSCLC through p16 arginine methylation and provide a new idea for NSCLC treatment ( xref )."

sparser
"Our statistical analyses on clinical outcome indicate that a combined marker of CDKN2A methylation or expression is associated with a decreased risk of LRR for LXSCC."

sparser
"For p16 methylation analysis, DNA was digested with Eco RI alone first and then in combination with Sac II (TOYOBO) ( Fig. 1 A)."

sparser
"All the cases and controls were checked for HPV infection and then promoter methylation and expression of p16 gene were determined using Methylation-specific PCR (MSP) and real-time PCR (QPCR), respectively."

sparser
"Additionally, methylation of the p16 gene could also modulate transcription of genes thereby increasing the predisposition and susceptibility towards PC."

sparser
"Promoter methylation of p16(INK4A), c-myc and hMSH2 genes was assayed by methylation-specific PCR (MSP) and sequencing (mapping)."

sparser
"CDKN2A was not methylated in any of the HPV-positive samples."

sparser
"Multivariate analysis suggested that HCC incidence was significantly depending on age and the aberrant methylation of p16 , SFRP1 , and LINE1 , which could be considered as candidate contributing variables for HCC development."

sparser
"Some genes are not, at least alone, good biomarkers for CRC since they are frequently methylated in other cancer types such CDKN2A (p16), found methylated across various tumors [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"This meta-analysis revealed the elevated frequency of DNA methylation of p16 gene in esophageal cancer, which indicated future potential application of this biomarker in early detection as well as the prognosis of the disease."

sparser
"Xiao et al. ( xref ) suggested the diagnostic values of CDKN2A methylation in exhaled breath condensate for early detection of NSCLC."

sparser
"We detected increased levels of circulating methylated INK4A in patients with late stages of HCC."

sparser
"Tumor suppressor genesp16 INK4A ,p14 ARF , andp15 INK4B encoding cell-cycle regulatory proteins play a crucial role in the negative regulation of the cell cycle and the inhibition of the cell proliferation. xref The silencing ofp16 INK4A ,p14 ARF , andp15 INK4B genes by DNA methylation of the C-phosphate-G (CpG) islands of the promoter regions has been reported to be involved in the carcinogenesis and be an early biologic event in many cancers. xref – xref Based on a meta-analysis, Gu et al reported thatp16 INK4A promoter methylation may play a key role in the tumorigenesis of lung cancer. xref However, whetherp14 ARF orp15 INK4B promoter methylation plays a crucial role in the carcinogenesis of lung cancer, which remains to be certified."

sparser
"In the same study, NEUROG1 and CDKN2A (p16) methylation were associated with sensitivities of 67% and 100%, respectively, both with 100% specificity."

sparser
"P16(INK4a) promoter methylation and protein expression in breast fibroadenoma and carcinoma."

sparser
"There is a narrow significant difference in median survival time of more than 30 months between patients with and without preoperatively detectable methylated p16 in serum (P=0.057)."

sparser
"K-ras mutations were present in 44 (38%) of 115 cases, and p16 methylation was present in 42 (37%) of 113 cases."

sparser
"The 338 bp region analyzed extended from 108 nucleotides upstream of the translation start site to 230 nucleotides downstream and included the most CpG-rich region of the CpG island associated with me[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Although p16 methylation has been associated with poorer survival in head and neck cancer, 46 results similar to ours regarding the lack of relevance of p16 and/or p14 methylation on survival have be[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Interestingly, approximately 50% of HPV-associated HNSCC cases exhibiting p16 INK4a methylation lacked p16 INK4a protein expression."

sparser
"The relationship with smoking and lower p16 methylation levels suggests that exposure to carcinogens likely results in a higher frequency of mutation and deletion of p16 and less likelihood of endogenous transformation through p16 methylation."

sparser
"When we removed one study (Leung 2005 et al ) [ xref ] in p16 promoter methylation, this study by Lu 2012 et al [ xref ] in RUNX3 promoter methylation, and one study by Bernal 2008 et al [ xref ] in APC promoter methylation."

sparser
"To investigate whether detection of abnormal methylation could have clinical applications in the management and follow-up of lymphomas, we have analysed the behaviour and evolution of p16ink4a and p15ink4b methylation in 13 NHL cases undergoing chemotherapy."

sparser
"A study by xref found methylated CDKN2A in the pre-surgery plasma of 31% of liver cancer patients, with a median methylation index (methylated circulating CDKN2A /total circulating CDKN2A ) of 35%."

sparser
"In a study of a different design, Mitsuno et al . reported that patients with p16 methylation gained longer survival from chemotherapy, while those without methylation did not [ xref ]."

sparser
"In recent year, some researchers had interested in that the risk size of HCC were related to blood p16 methylation between normal and HCC bloods."

sparser
"The frequency of p16 INK4a promoter methylation in tumor was 43.98% and 21.14% in control."

sparser
"Several studies have investigated the effects ofp16 INK4a methylation in primary OSCC xref – xref and reported a range of 23 to 87% methylation, making methylation of this gene a very important component of marker panels for tumor screening and detection. xref – xref Our study showed methylatedp16 INK4a in 47.8% OSCCs."

sparser
"Supporting this notion, it has been reported that adding INK4A methylation status to AFP can increase the diagnostic sensitivity of HCC from 60% to 80% [ xref ]."

sparser
"Despite the small number of DLBCL cases analyzed so far (between 9 and 68 cases in each study), methylation of p16 INK4a has been found in 16–54% of cases [2,4,12–16] , most of which have utilized [MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"The results from the current study suggest significant impact of the p14 (ARF) gene methylation on the pathogenesis and progression of myxoid and to a lesser extent pleomorphic liposarcoma."

sparser
"CDKN2A promoter methylation may be an independent prognostic biomarker for predicting progression-free survival."

sparser
"P16 INK4a aberrant methylation was significantly associated with decreased p16 protein expression (P = 0.033), as well as the overexpression of p53 (P = 0.020)."

sparser
"In these 49 GC cell lines, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and high microsatellite instability (MSI-H)-type cell lines were p16 methylated and sensitive to abemaciclib; further, genomically stable (GS), and chromosomal instability (CIN)-type cell lines with p16 methylation and intact Rb were also found to be responsive."

sparser
"Only one study has investigated the frequency of p14 ARF methylation and inactivation in skin melanoma [12] , while this issue has not been addressed in uveal melanoma."

sparser
"The p16 and APC genes were also frequently methylated in primary colorectal cancers (P < ."

sparser
"The p16(INK4a) methylation index, which ranged from 0% to 100% (median, 17%), was significantly higher in larger tumors (P < ."

sparser
"During the 17 month observation period p16 gene promoter methylation was incrementally increased in both diets with an increase in age ( P -trend < 0.0001 for both diet groups)."

sparser
"Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the status of p16 methylation in DLBCL."

sparser
"The frequency of p16 methylation was significantly higher in GC tissues (85.9%; 79/92) than that in paired PCHNTs (12.0%; 11/92) (P<0.0001)."

sparser
"When stratified analysis was conducted about different stages of NSCLC, the associations were also found in stages I to III, but not I-IV, with relatively larger sample pooled indicating that late-stage NSCLC patient confounded the observation of p16 methylation on survival."

sparser
"One study showed that p16 INK4A methylation increased tumor sensitivity to the CDK4/6 inhibitor Palbociclib [ xref ], suggesting that this might be an example of oncogene addiction."

sparser
"This evidence supports the association of methylated CDKN2A with EC carcinogenesis."

sparser
"The results show that promoter methylation of p14, p15, p16, p21, p27, p57 and p73 was far more common in ESCC samples with CIMP+ than those with CIMP-."

sparser
"P14(ARF) promoter methylation also was associated significantly with the CCAT haplotype (odds ratio [OR], 8.31; 95% CI, 2.43-28.41; P= ."

sparser
"DNA methylation of mir34-b/c was common in isolated cancer and IM glands, whereas DNA methylation of CDKN2A was a rare event in isolated samples."

sparser
"A recent study [ xref ] has reported, methylation of p14ARF and p16INK4a was reported in the pancreatic fluid of ~50% of cancer patients but undetected in pancreatic fluid of chronic pancreatitis patients."

sparser
"Several studies have shown that promoter methylation of multiple tumour-related genes is present in gastric epithelial tissues with or without cancer, and that accumulations of such genes promote gastric carcinogenesis ( xref ; xref ; xref , xref , xref ; xref ; xref ; xref ). xref reported that among 94 samples obtained from patients with gastric cancer, promoter methylation of E-cadherin, hMLH1 , and p16 was found in 67, 24, and 44% of the surrounding gastric epithelial tissues, respectively. xref reported that among 268 samples obtained from gastric epithelial tissues without cancer, promoter methylation of DAP-kinase, E-cadherin, THBS1, TIMP3, p14, MGMT, p16, COX2, GSTP1 hMLH1, and RASSF1A was observed in 53.7, 41.0, 37.7, 23.1, 18.7, 10.9, 10.0, 4.1, 3.4, 1.7, and 0.4%, respectively."

sparser
"The strong association seen between p16 methylation in the bronchial epithelium and corresponding primary tumor substantiates that inactivation of this gene, although not transforming by itself, is likely permissive for the acquisition of additional genetic and epigenetic changes leading to lung cancer."

sparser
"39 ) results in demethylation and induction of the tumor suppressor p16, which is methylated in these cells."

sparser
"Importantly, our data suggest that circulating cell-free methylated INK4A may complement AFP to improve the positivity in HCC; the positive rates are 45.5%, 74.2%, and 80.3% in the 66 HCC cases for AFP, INK4A methylation, and in combination, respectively, using LOD cut-offs of 200 μg/L for AFP [ xref ] and 5% for INK4A methylation [ xref ]."

sparser
"The frequency of promoter methylation was significantly higher in tobacco chewers as compared to non-chewers for all the genes under study (p<0.001, xref ) whereas, smokers had higher frequency of p16, DAPK and GSTP1 methylation than non-smokers ( xref )."

sparser
"In the 23 patients with MCL lymphoma, median OS in patients with unmethylated p16 (n = 4) is not reached, and the median OS of patients with methylated p16 (n = 19) is 65.1 months ( P = ."

sparser
"In addition,p16 INK4a methylation, CTNNB1 (beta-catenin encoding gene) mutations and CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) are more frequent in GI than pancreatic NETs [ xref – xref ]."

sparser
"Results obtained showed that aberrant methylation of p15 and p16 genes were detected in 64.29 and 50% of ovarian cancer patients, while E-cadherin hypermethylation was detected in 78.57% of ovarian cancer patients."

sparser
"We next evaluated the influence of concurrent methylation in NEUROG1 and CDKN2A (p16) on survival."

sparser
"The above analyses suggested that p16 and p14 methylation may not be linked to the clinicopathological features of PCa patients."

sparser
"Polymorphic variants of GSTM1 and GSTT1 were significantly associated with aberrant methylation of CDKN2A gene."

sparser
"In this prospective series of resected, early-stage lung cancers, we did not detect an association between recurrence-free survival and tumor promoter methylation of CDKN2A , CDH13 , RASSF1 , and APC in addition to five other genes on our panel ( MGMT, GSTP1, DAPK, WIF-1, and METH-2 )."

sparser
"The platform was once again tested with methylated p14ARF by discriminating partially and fully methylated epialleles among a high background of unmethylated DNA and displayed an estimated loading efficiency of 80%, up to 7× more than the previous device, developing a simple and low-cost system for rare DNA methylation quantification [ xref ]."

sparser
"A relatively high frequency of CpG promoter methylation (52%) was found only in hTERT, with low frequency of methylation (<15%) in p16INK4a , TIMP3 , RASFF1 , and RARB , and no methylation in FHIT and APC .[ xref ] Given the presence of promoter methylation of APC , RASSF1 , and RARB in cutaneous melanoma, these findings suggest that cutaneous and UM likely undergo different epigenetic changes."

sparser
"However, on subdividing patients according to age, the disease-free survival rate of patients younger than age 54 was not correlated with p16 promoter methylation ( P = 0.426) ( Fig. 2 A)."

sparser
"Poor survival was related to methylation of p14."

sparser
"Protein p16 is frequently deleted, mutated, or methylated in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (40) and this loss has a prediction for poor clinical outcome in several tumors (41) ."

sparser
"38,39 As in BL, the p16INK4a gene is methylated in MPC-derived lines."

sparser
"According to study the association between p16 INK4a promoter methylation and disease characteristics, the special role of p16 INK4a promoter methylation in the carcinogenic process of HNSCC may be found."

sparser
"Among studies performed in the Korean population, one study reported that p16 methylation was detected in 67% of tumor samples ( xref )."

sparser
"Studies have shown that P16 DNA methylation is correlated with a decreased level of expression in tissues [ xref – xref ] and is linked to the development and metastasis of many cancers [ xref – xref ]."

sparser
"P16 Methylation Is an Early Predictor for Malignant Progression of OED."

sparser
"Association between p16 promoter methylation and age of HCC."

sparser
"Indeed, methylation of CDKN2A was found not only in HCC, but also in patients with chronic liver disease [ xref , xref ] indicating that this finding may be non-specific for liver cancer."

sparser
"Overall, 18.3% of the tumors had detectable p16INK4a methylation."

sparser
"Methylation of CDKN2A corresponds to a loss of p16 expression on immunohistochemical analysis ( xref )."

sparser
"Compared with nodules without malignant CT signs, expression of telomerase activity and p16 methylation of SPN with malignant CT signs (lobulation or spiculate protuberance or spicule sign) had a significant difference (P < 0.01)."

sparser
"Twelve trials detected p16 methylation by using fresh frozen tissue and 5 using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) specimen, only one using peripheral blood as sample xref ."

sparser
"DNA content and DNA methylation of p16, DAPK and RASSF1A was examined."

sparser
"Odds ratio (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were calculated to evaluate the strength of association betweenp16 INK4a promoter methylation and HNSCC."

sparser
"Two studies observed no methylation in tumor suppressor gene panels including E-cadherin , p16 , p14ARF , APC and RASSF1A in urine DNAs from normal healthy individuals. xref , xref We have found a significant relation between smoking status of patients and controls regarding the methylation of CDH1 and p14ARF ."

sparser
"Treatment with a universal DNMT inhibitor, 5-Aza-2′dC, almost completely abolished the effects of Core on the DNA methylation and expression of p16 ( Fig. 2 A)."

sparser
"Much of the studies have evaluated INK4A promoter methylation using a variation of an allele-specific PCR assay known as methylation-specific PCR (MSP) which relies on the conversion of cytosine to uracil by sodium bisulfite [ xref ]."

sparser
"MSI, CIMP, LINE-1 methylation, and related molecular events such as BRAF mutation, are important potential confounders, because these molecular features have been associated with prognosis in large-scale studies. xref , xref , xref , xref Our current study is the only one study that assessed the prognostic significance of CDKN2A methylation and loss of CDKN2A (p16) independent of these potential confounders."

sparser
"It was first reported that p16 methylation occurred in every stage of leukoplakia cancerization and OSCC progression."

sparser
"Prevalence for methylation of the p16 gene in plasma was highest in lung cancer survivors."

sparser
"Recent studies showed that aberrant P16 promoter methylation is an early and critical event in the non–small cell lung carcinoma development ( xref ), and it has been observed in serum and sputum of chronic smokers without clinical disease ( xref )."

sparser
"It is worth performing clinical trials to assess whether P16 methylation could be used to predict the therapeutic efficacy of CDK4/6 inhibitors such as palbociclib in patients with lung and stomach cancers."

sparser
"Diagnostic effect of methylated P16 , RASSF1A , APC and SHOX2 genes in lung cancer."

sparser
"This data provides the first link between these polymorphisms and aberrant promoter methylation of the p16 and MGMT genes in respiratory epithelium of subjects at high risk for lung cancer [17] ."

sparser
"This indicates that P14 ARF gene DNA methylation is associated with primary liver cancer occurrence."

sparser
"Understanding of risk associated with p16 methylation at baseline assessment."

sparser
"Other important finding is that high serum folate levels increase DNA methylation of tumor suppressor genes p16 and DNA repair genes MLH1 and MGMT in blood."

sparser
"As p16 methylation and Rb hyperphosphorylation are frequent molecular events during tumorigenesis, expression levels of p16 and phosphorylated Rb (serine 807/811) were monitored in RWPE1 and the three prostate cancer cell lines."

sparser
"For instance, CRC cells in which the cell cycle regulator p16 is methylated show considerable resistance to irinotecan [ xref ], as well as the hypermethylation of particular genes, such as SAT, C8orf4, LAMB3, is responsible for the decrease in sensitivity to cisplatin [ xref ]."

sparser
"Therefore, p16, CDH1, and MGMT methylation status can be suggested as a general methylation based panel marker for all cancers in Iranian patients."

sparser
"Our findings suggest p16 methylation is correlated with the malignant transformation of gastric DYS, and p16 methylation might be a useful biomarker for prediction of malignant potential of gastric DYS."

sparser
"CpG island hypermethylation of the CDKN2A promoter has been reported in 3–77% of BE cases suggesting that CDKN2A methylation is in early event in BE pathogenesis ( xref – xref )."

sparser
"The p16 INK4A and p15 INK4A genes are methylated in about 20–30% of MGUS and MM tumors, and in most HMCL xref ."

sparser
"The result from 2 studies involving 147 PCa and 129 cases without cancer demonstrated that p16 methylation was not associated with PCa in the urine (OR = 13.45, 95% CI = 0.24–754.62, P  = ."

sparser
"Association between p16 promoter methylation and tumor differentiation of HCC."

sparser
"Nevertheless, due to the lack of complete clinical data of all patients, we were unable to confirm on the diagnostic or prognostic values of p16 methylation in our DLBCL samples."

sparser
"In the present study, p16 promoter methylation proceeded in accordance with the carcinogenesis process as has been shown in previous reports in humans [ xref , xref , xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Interestingly, p16 methylation was detectable not only in tumor tissue, but also in normal human mammary epithelial cells which have an extended life span, and are therefore, able to escape senescen[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Results showed that p16(ink4a) methylation was detected in the glandular stomach, small intestine and other organs of mice following X-radiation and subsequent bone marrow transplantation (BMT), but not in mock control mice."

sparser
"The result demonstrated that p16 methylation was not associated with clinical stage, PSA level or GS of patients with PCa (all P s > ."

sparser
"In our cohort, we found methylation of p16 in 19% of primary and 28.6% secondary tumors."

sparser
"Eads et al. reported the distribution of “fields” of methylation of CDKN2A, APC and ESR1 in esophagectomy specimens of BE resected for EA. xref ESR1 methylation was found in inflammatory reflux esophagitis and all subsequent stages whereas APC and CDKN2A methylation were found in BE metaplasia, dysplasia and carcinoma."

sparser
"32,33 Aberrant methylation of p16 associated with its loss of expression in tumor cells have also been found in other tumors, including esophageal, colon, prostate, and pancreatic carcinomas, support[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"The methylation in 5' CpG island of p16 gene in colonic mucosa is different in various restriction enzyme sites, and the methylation process of p16 gene in both normal colonic mucosa and colorectal carcinomas is complicated."

sparser
"The incidence of aberrant methylation of p14 ARF gene in this study (50.8%) was much higher than the previously reported incidence, which was 22–38% [12,38] ."

sparser
"Promoter methylation of p16(INK4a) and p14(ARF) was detected in 36% and 42% in cSCC, respectively."

sparser
"In previous studies, the incidence of p16 gene methylation in diethylnitrosamine (DEN) and 4-methylnitrosamino-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) induced rat hepatocellular carcinomas was found in 50% a[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Concurrent p15 and p16 methylation was shown in 48% of tumors, and p15/p16 methylation was detected in the plasma/serum of 92% (11 of 12) of patients."

sparser
"Although no significant correlation between p14 ARF methylation and TP53 mutational status was seen ( P  = 0.23), methylation involving the proximal CpG sites within the 5′ CpG flanking exon 1β was present more frequently in tumors with restricted p53 overexpression than in those with diffuse p53 overexpression (range of methylated clones 17 to 36% (95% CI 24 to 36%) versus range 0 to 3% (95% CI 0 to 3%), P  = 0."

sparser
"The positive rates of P16 methylation of the GSM tumor and normal tissues were 63.0% (51/81) and 32.1% (26/81), respectively."

sparser
"The importance of methylation of the promoter region of the p16 gene in oral and pharyngeal-laryngeal cancers has been recently published (42) ."

sparser
"Furthermore, hypermethylation was only found in the primary but not in the corresponding normal tissues suggesting that de novo methylation of p16 is a common and tumor specific mode of inactivation o[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"The results of an analysis in which confounding factors were adjusted revealed that carrying the rs755622 C allele and the rs5844572 7-repeat allele was significantly associated with an increased methylation of both p14 ARF and p16 INK4a (OR, 2.70; 95% CI, 1.22–6.01; p  = 0.015 and OR, 2.87; 95% CI, 1.25–6.62; p  = 0.013, respectively; Table  xref )."

sparser
"The aim of this study is to prospectively determine if early P16 methylation is a predictor for oral cancer development."

sparser
"We investigated promoter methylation of p14(ARF) and expression as well as their effect on hTERT expression and telomerase activity in HCC."

sparser
"Egger tests and funnel plots exhibited a certain degree of publication bias for the analysis of association between CDKN2A methylation and OS."

sparser
"They suggested that individuals with p16 promoter methylation of normal tissue might be prone to development of cancer."

sparser
"The BOR (complete response+partial response) rate by RECIST was 68.8% in patients with unmethylated p16 (22/32; 95% confidence interval [CI], 51.5 to 84.8) and 33.3% (4/12; 95% CI, 9.1 to 62.5) in patients with methylated p16 (Fisher exact test, p=0.045) ( xref )."

sparser
"One patient acquired p16 methylation during relapse."

sparser
"One study reported the relationship between p14 methylation and clinical stage,[ xref ]but the other studies showed no association.[ xref , xref ] p14 methylation was negatively associated with GS by Verdoodt 2011 et al,[ xref ]while no correlation was reported among the remaining 4 studies.[ xref , xref , xref , xref ]The results demonstrated that p14 methylation was not linked to clinical stage and GS of patients with PCa."

sparser
"In addition, methylated RASSF1A and p16 genes are reported to be promising driving molecules in many cancers under the concept of precision medicine [ xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Our previous study of gene methylation in workers from the MAYAK nuclear enterprise identified a significantly higher prevalence for methylation of the p16 gene (CDKN2A) in adenocarcinomas from workers compared to tumors from non-worker controls."

sparser
"Further, subgroup analyses by detection methods of P16 , RASSF1A , APC , and RARβ methylation were conducted."

sparser
"All 24 cases with promotor methylation of either p14 ARF or p16 INK4a showed a complete loss of immunore- activity within the tumor tissue, whereas in tumors lack- ing methylation, a moderate to stron[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"These results showed significant differences compared with the 26.9% positive rates of MAGE A3 unmethylation and 40.9% of p16 methylation in the 93 MAGE -negative cases ( xref )."

sparser
"None of these PanINs showed CpG island methylation of ppENK , and only one PanIN-1A lesion showed methylation of p16 (from a patient with common bile duct adenocarcinoma)."

sparser
"Additionally, this previous meta-analysis did not analyze the correlation of p16 promoter methylation between HCC and chronic hepatitis."

sparser
"None of the samples were positive for BRCA1 , CDKN2A , GSTP1 or RASSF1A methylation in the regions analysed."

sparser
"In none of the specimens obtained from patients with chronic pancreatitis, either p16INK4a or p14ARF promoter methylation was detected in this study."

sparser
"These numbers suggest that if methylated plasma CDKN2A is to be useful in detecting lung cancer, it will likely be as part of a biomarker panel rather than as a single gene."

sparser
"Our results showed that there were significantly higher levels of methylated INK4A in HCC specimens than controls and that the seven CpG sites had different levels of methylation and might exist in different PCR amplicons."

sparser
"The incidence of p16INK4A methylation in patients with cervical and endometrial carcinomas at advanced stages (stages III-IV) was statistically higher than those at early stages (stages I-II)."

sparser
"Recent evidence suggests that environmental chemicals may cause diseases via epigenetic mechanisms that regulate gene expression without changing DNA sequencing, such as DNA methylation (i.e., cytosine modification at CpG dinucleotides), the most well-studied epigenetic mechanism in the etiology of disease. [ xref , xref ] Although most studies have been conducted using tissue samples, [ xref , xref ] evidence for As exposure and DNA methylation in blood DNA has also begun to accumulate. [ xref – xref ] A global dose-dependent hypermethylation of blood DNA was observed in a Bangladeshi population with chronic As exposure to contaminated drinking water. [ xref ] In a cross-sectional study of Indian individuals, As levels in contaminated water was also associated with global DNA hypermethylation in blood mononuclear cells. [ xref ] Chanda et al. observed blood DNA hypermethylation in the promoter of p53 and p16 in As-exposed Indian individuals. [ xref ] Consistently, in a Chinese population, increased DNA methylation in the p16 promoter was observed in arseniasis patients compared with people without a history of As exposure. [ xref ] However, these previous studies have been limited to the evaluation of global methylation markers or methylation alterations in a small group of genes."

sparser
"In APL, p15 but not p16 gene methylation is frequent."

sparser
"There was a number of researchers associating p16 methylation in cancer and the age of patients."

sparser
"CDKN2A promoter methylation and loss of CDKN2A (p16) were associated with shorter overall survival in univariate Cox regression analysis [hazard ratio (HR), 1.36; 95% CI, 1.10-1.66; p=0.0036 for CDKN2A methylation; HR, 1.30; 95% CI, 1.03-1.63; p=0.026 for CDKN2A (p16) loss] but not in multivariate analysis that adjusted for clinical and tumor variables including CIMP, MSI, and LINE-1 methylation."

sparser
"There was very little evidence of any significant associations of clinical characteristics with methylation of p16 , DCC , CCNA1 , CD1A , GADD45α , NDN or LINE-1 genes."

sparser
"The methylation of p16 gene plays an important role in the pathogenesis and the development of some hematological malignancies."

sparser
"Homozygous deletion has been described as the major inactivating mechanism for the CDKN2A products [ xref ], while several authors have found promoter methylation of p14 ARF and/or p16 INK4A in a subset of astrocytic tumors [ xref ]."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 and MGMT and LOH at 18q, 17p, and 5q are present within the tumor mass in a large majority of CRC tumors and are of no or little prognostic value."

sparser
"P14ARF methylation apparently is of subordinate significance in pancreatic carcinoma while its exact role needs to be further evaluated."

sparser
"Moreover, there were a higher frequency of methylated p16 in all three samples in patients with B symptoms and lower platelet count (<100 × 10 9 /L), as well as in patients with stage III/IV in plasma and FFPE tumor tissues."

sparser
"The association between the p16 promoter methylation and daily roasting meat intake was examined."

sparser
"On the other hand, the subgroup analysis by ethnicity indicated that the methylation of the P16 gene was significantly associated with NSCLC in Caucasians and Asians ( P < 0.05)."

sparser
"Compared to abstainers, there was a decrease in the likelihood of p16 promoter methylation among postmenopausal women who drank (OR, 0.50, 95% CI, 0.29–0.86 for lifetime lower alcohol intake; OR, 0.52, 95% CI, 0.29–0.92 for higher alcohol intake)."

sparser
"Positivity for CDKN2A or APC methylation showed no relationship with any of the above clinical/endoscopic features either."

sparser
"Therefore, we got the right conclusion that HCC pathogenesis affecting p16 methylation in blood did not play a role from normal person, and began to work from benign liver disease."

sparser
"While the TCGA subcohort was more likely to be male, Caucasian and non‐Hispanic, and less likely to be HPV positive compared to our MMC cohort, no significant associations were seen between nonpromoter CDKN2A methylation and clinicopathologic factors."

sparser
"According to results from the above minimum TAIT for GFRA1 and P16 methylation analyses, when the cutoff value for the proportion of methylated GFRA1 or P16 alleles in a tested sample is set at 1.6%, in order to avoid false negative results, at least 9.4 ng bisulfite-treated input DNA (Ct COL2A1 ≤ 29.3) should be added into each PCR reaction."

sparser
"We detected frequent methylation of p16 (44%), RASSF1A (18%), E-cadherin (53%), H-cadherin (35%), MGMT (35%), DAPK (53%), DCC (42%), COL1A2 (44%), TAC1 (61%), SST (64%), and GALR1 (44%) in HNSCC."

sparser
"In agreement with these findings, in the present study we analyzed DNA from macroscopically normal mucosa and found that p16 methylation was undetectable in most samples – only very low levels of p16 methylation were detected inApc +/Min mice at weaning."

sparser
"Although DNA methylation of the p16 gene was detected using MSP, quantitative examination using pyrosequencing (is available at Carcinogenesis Online) revealed generally low DNA methylation levels (1.82 ± 0.65%) in all UCs."

sparser
"For example, Nadia et al. [ xref ] found a significant association between methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene polymorphisms and p16 and O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene promoter methylation in oral squamous cell cancer (OSCC) patients, which suggests that hypermethylation of cancer-related genes may be affected by MTHFR polymorphisms."

sparser
"Effects of emodin and 5-Aza-CdR on the methylation of tumor-suppressor genes P16, RASSF1A and ppENK."

sparser
"Our study suggests the potential use of p16 methylation status in predicting the outcome of MM patients and the applicability of demethylating agents in MM."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 and APC genes in NSCLC patients was associated with advanced staging and lower 6-month survival."

sparser
"Accumulating studies have also reported the aberrant methylation of glutathione S-transferase pi-1 ( GSTP1 ) promoter region and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p15 and p16 in HCC patients ( xref – xref )."

sparser
"In contrast, CDH1 , CDKN2A , MINT1, MINT31, and miR-124a-3 methylation in non-IM mucosa were significantly decreased in the AG group compared to the Hp group (Table  xref )."

sparser
"Subgroup analyses also do not show a statistically significant influence of CDKN2A ( p14) methylation on prognosis [ xref ]."

sparser
"For example, promoter methylation of the RUNX3 and TSLC1 genes in tissues that surround the tumor may be used as a molecular diagnostic marker, and promoter methylation of hMLH1 and p16 may be[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"P14 ARF and p15 INK4b Methylation Figure."

sparser
"We sequentially measured global DNA methylation, p16 promoter methylation and p16 gene expression in colonic mucosa to determine the epigenetic effects of aging and lifelong dietary exposure."

sparser
"There are available reports which have shown the effect of p16 methylation in precancerous oral lesions with and without epithelial dysplasia [ xref , xref ] and its association with advanced OSCC [ xref , xref – xref ]. von Zeidler et al. evaluated methylation status of p16 gene in premalignant oral lesions and found 9.7% of cases with promoter hypermethylation [ xref ]."

sparser
"We studied p14(ARF) methylation and mRNA in 30 hepatocellular carcinomas and corresponding non-tumor liver tissues using methylation-specific PCR."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 was detected in both HT29 and HepG2 cell lines, whereas methylation of GALR2 was detected only in the HT29 cell line."

sparser
"MGMT was methylated in the circulating tumor-derived DNA from only one meningioma patient, RASSF1A methylation was found in two meningiomas and three metastatic tumors, and the methylation of both p15INK4B and p14ARF was detected in one meningioma and three metastatic tumors, respectively."

sparser
"Our study also showed frequent methylation of p16 in MCL."

sparser
"In this pilot study, we found an increasing trend for the P16 methylation frequency with disease development in both biopsy and cytology specimens."

sparser
"There was a positive correlation between p16 promoter methylation and p16 expression in the old mouse colon ( P <0·02)."

sparser
"In diffuse large B-cell lymphomas, methylation of p16(INK4A) and p57(KIP2) was found in 72.7 and 36.4% of the cases, respectively."

sparser
"It was shown that groups of superficial and invasive bladder cancer are significantly differing in the frequency of 17p13 (p = 0.006) and 9q34 (p = 0.04) deletions and in aberrant methylation of the gene P16 (p = 0.02)."

sparser
"Relatively intense methylation of the p16 Ink4a promoter is permissive for transcription [35] and the partially methylated a[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"A 115-bp MethyLight assay for detection of p16 (CDKN2A) methylation as a diagnostic biomarker in human tissues."

sparser
"To avoid the interference of possible confounding factors, multiple linear regression results showed that P14 ARF methylation level increased following the improvement of TNM stage (P<0.05)."

sparser
"As shown in xref , when the highest value of methylation of the seven CpG sites was used for each of the samples, there were significantly higher levels of INK4A methylation in HCC samples than in the benign liver disease samples (odds ratio=1.38 with 95% confidence interval of 1.05–1.79; p<0.05, Wald test)."

sparser
"Evaluation of p16 and ESR1 promoter methylation in blood using real-time PCR appears to be very useful for lung cancer diagnosis and there is some possibility that these methylated genes might come to represent useful biomarkers for the early detection of lung cancer."

sparser
"Aberrant methylation of the promoter region of the p16 gene and loss of expression of its product were in accord with the multistep progression of peripheral-type lung adenocarcinoma, and these alterations were associated closely with poor prognosis of the disease."

sparser
"RUNX3 , RARβ2, p16 , and ARF methylation status were negative in all patients with S. haematobium infection."

sparser
"We also reported that ANRIL and P16 are coordinately transcribed in CCLE cell lines, and P16 methylation repressed both ANRIL and P16 expression and did not affect P14/P15 expression [ xref ]."

sparser
"Co-treatment with EGCG and TSA decreased p16(INK4a) gene methylation, which coincided with increased p16(INK4a) mRNA and protein expression."

sparser
"The finding above of partially but relatively profoundly methylated alleles provoked selection of four tumors with low expression by Western blotting and negative for p16 [MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Additionally, we evaluated the relationship between CDKN2A methylation and the clinicopathological characteristics of EC."

sparser
"In case-case comparisons of premenopausal breast cancer, lower birth weight was associated with increased likelihood of E - cadherin promoter methylation (OR = 2.79, 95% CI, 1.15–6.82, for ≤ 2.5 vs 2.6–2.9 kg); higher adult height withRAR-β 2 methylation (OR =3.34, 95% CI, 1.19–9.39, for ≥ 1.65 vs <1.60 m); and not having been breast fed with p16 methylation (OR = 2.75, 95% CI, 1.14–6.62)."

sparser
"The methylation-specific PCR (MSP) was used to study methylation of the p16, retinoic acid receptor-beta (RARbeta), death-associated protein (DAP) kinase, and O(6)-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) genes in 75 NSCLCs [44 adenocarcinomas and 31 squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs)] and 68 BALs from suspected lung cancers."

sparser
"In the current analysis, the diagnostic value of methylated CDKN2A for EC diagnosis was assessed using data from 41 eligible case-control studies."

sparser
"These findings predict a role for serine phosphorylation against arginine methylation of p16."

sparser
"Non-oncogenic HPV DNA was detected in two participants with LSIL and methylated gene p16."

sparser
"In total, 55 parathyroid tumors were assessed for APC , RASSF1A ,p16 INK4A and RAR-β regional promoter methylation using Pyrosequencing analysis."

sparser
"Promoter methylation of p16 can often be detected in tumor samples but not in normal tissues."

sparser
"Frequent methylation of p16 ink4a in OLP has been reported recently (Dang et al., xref ) wherein p16 ink4a levels in OLP patients were found to be higher than that in heathy subjects, and lower than that in SCC."

sparser
"Carriers of the slow-metabolizing AS3MT haplotype were associated with more p16 methylation (P = 0.022)."

sparser
"Methylation of RARB , APC , CDH13 , ESR1 , CDKN2A , RASSF1 , MGMT , and HOXD9 has been shown to be associated with poor survival in CM [ xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref ]."

sparser
"While the p16 gene methylation has been reported as one of the earliest methylation events in lung cancer development, occurring in the bronchial epithelium of some current and former smokers [ xref ], we did not find methylation in pretested exhaled samples, nor in the lung cancer cell line A549 cells (not shown)."

sparser
"During DNA replication, cells require new p16 promoter methylation to keep p16 silenced."

sparser
"The pooled diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) was 10.72 (95% CI 6.94–16.56) for P16 INK4a gene promoter methylation as a biomarker for the diagnosis of NSCLC (Fig xref )."

sparser
"Indeed, microsatellite instability and aberrant DNA methylation of E-cadherin, p16 , and c-myc have been reported in the noncancerous liver tissues of HCC."

sparser
"Total P16 methylation (P16M), including P16 hydroxymethylation (P16H) and true-P16M, correlates with malignant transformation of oral epithelial dysplasia (OED)."

sparser
"DNA was bisulfite modified and then Methylation Specific PCR was used to detect p16(ink4a) gene aberrant methylation, and black dust matter was extracted from lung tissues, the absolute absorbance (A) detected by densitometry was defined as anthracotic index (AI)."

sparser
"The present study was performed to examine the incidence of methylated p16INK4A in the sera of liver cirrhosis (LC) and HCC patients, and to evaluate its role as a tumor marker of HCC."

sparser
"We studied the HLA association, aberration p15, p16 and p73 promoter methylation and microsatellite instability in Chinese primary thyroid lymphoma patients to elucidate their relationship with AITD and the relationship between thyroid diffuse large cell lymphoma (DLCL) and marginal zone lymphomas (MZL)."

sparser
"To demonstrate the overall detection efficiency of the device, fixed amounts of synthetic DNA representative of fully methylated CDKN2A (p14 ARF ), a well-established methylation biomarker for various cancer types xref , were digitized on the device."

sparser
"Patients with methylated P16 and at least one methylated gene had higher peroxide levels as well as peroxides/GSH ratio than patients without methylation."

sparser
"This result implies that other causal factors may be the main contributors to the abnormal p16 methylation seen in GC samples."

sparser
"Our biomarker qualification process through training and validation sets demonstrated that a panel of TERT, WT1, p16 and RASSF1 methylation markers provides a parsimonious and efficient algorithm for correctly predicting lung cancer status in 85.9% of tested bronchial washing specimens."

sparser
"It has been reported that the methylation of CDKN2A gene is connected to the incidence of LIHC ( xref )."

sparser
"Firstly, we characterized 10 neuroblastoma cell lines for alterations at the p53/MDM2/p14ARF signaling pathway by analysis of TP53 point mutations, MYCN and MDM2 amplification, and p14ARF methylation, homozygous deletions, and expression."

sparser
"Although Wong et al xref reported that p16 promoter methylation was associated with advanced stage and poorer survival of endometrial cancer, no correlation was observed between promoter methylation of p16 and clinicpathological features and prognosis of endometrial cancer in another recent study xref ."

sparser
"Promoter methylation of p16 INK4a , p14 ARF , RB1, TIMP -3, and MGMT genes has also been analyzed in both primary and secondary glioblastomas, where secondary glioblastoma showed a higher frequency of promoter methylation than primary glioblastoma ( xref , xref - xref )."

sparser
"Methylation of the p16 INK4a promoter methylation was found in 73.6% (39/53) of all samples."

sparser
"However, we did not observe considerable differences in key socio-demographic and clinicopathological features between BC patients with and without available tissue or blood data. xref , xref Second, the low prevalence of some methylation biomarkers (i.e., low frequency of CDKN2A and CDH1 methylation) in our study sample, as reflected in the wide confidence intervals, may have contributed to our inability to detect modest interactions; thus, these results should be interpreted with caution."

sparser
"Wong et al .[ xref ]showed that 25% of patients with p15 methylation in tissue also demonstrated methylated p15 in blood samples, and nearly all patients with p15 and p16 methylation in tissues demonstrated methylation abnormalities in blood samples."

sparser
"Among these 24 genes, the meta-analysis of p16 , RASSF1A , CDH1 , RUNX3 and GSTP1 genes methylation was performed between HCC tumor tissues vs adjacent tissues, HCC tumor tissues vs normal tissues and HCC serums vs normal serums."

sparser
"In consequence of the p16 promoter methylation, the Cdk2/cyclin A/E kinase pathway is likely to be activated in these cells."

sparser
"CDKN2A promoter methylation was studied using MethyLight technique and methylation-specific PCR (MSP)."

sparser
"Whether the p16 INK4A methylation may be used as an adjunct prognostic indicator in these malignancies remains to be establish[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"CTNNB1 and TERT mutations and aberrant methylation of RASSF1A and CDKN2A were detected in ctDNA of HCC patients, whereas high frequency of KRAS mutations was characteristic for PC."

sparser
"Our present findings, while limited to small lung adenocarcinomas with BAC components, agree with our previous reports, suggesting that the aberrant methylation of p16 INK4a may be an important mech[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"With our large dataset, we could examine the prognostic effect of CDKN2A methylation independent of CIMP status [i.e., multivariate analysis summarizing CDKN2A -methylated (N=121) vs. unmethylated (N=20) in CIMP-high tumors and CDKN2A -methylated (N=148) vs. unmethylated (N=613) in non-CIMP-high tumors, adjusted for other variables]."

sparser
"Lung adenocarcinomas were examined from workers and non-worker controls for methylation of the CDKN2A (p16), O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), death associated protein kinase (DAP-K), and Ras effector homolog 1 genes (RASSF1A)."

sparser
"Indeed, in lung adenocarcinoma, methylation of TSGs CDKN2A and APC also was significantly associated with exposure to tobacco smoke ( xref )."

sparser
"P14(ARF) methylation occurred independently of p16(INK4a) alterations and showed no correlation to p53 mutations."

sparser
"Using a modified semi-nested methylation-specific PCR (MSP), the status of methylation of the p16 was investigated in plasma DNA from 137 lung cancer patients and 112 matched tumor tissues."

sparser
"These results suggest that aberrant p14ARF expression due to homozygous deletion or promoter hypermethylation is associated with the evolution of both primary and secondary glioblastomas, and that p14ARF promoter methylation is an early event in subset of astrocytomas that undergo malignant progression to secondary glioblastoma."

sparser
"During follow-up, p16 methylation was acquired in two patients, one during the third hematologic relapse, and the other during transformation into therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome."

sparser
"Based on the detection method of methylation, a significant association was found between P16 methylation status and lung cancer in the MSP and QMSP subgroups (OR = 4.49, P < 0.001 and OR = 46.43, P < 0.001, respectively)."

sparser
"In this group, MGMT , RASSF1A , p15INK4B , and p14ARF were methylated in 3/17 (17.65 %), 8/17 (47.06 %), 2/17 (11.76 %), and 7/17 (41.18 %) cases, respectively."

sparser
"Banno et al. did not observe any P16 promoter methylation in his series of 92 cases including normal, premalignant and malignant endometrial tissue [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Sequential exposure of these cells to an initial dose of 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine (1 μM) followed by zebularine (50 μM) prevented CDKN2A re-methylation and re-silencing over extended time periods (Cheng et al., xref )."

sparser
"Hypermethylation of p16 was detected in 100% of those nine tumor samples from stage I ADC cases, while only 44.4% (4/9) of them showed aberrant methylation of p16 in their matched plasma samples."

sparser
"P16(INK4a) methylation was positively correlated to cyclinD1 overexpression."

sparser
"Cigarette smoking was associated with a >2-fold increased risk of promoter methylation of the p16INK4A gene only, with greater risk seen in patients with exposures more recent to disease diagnosis."

sparser
"A recent animal study also observed that alcohol consumption did not affect p16 promoter methylation in mice aged either 18 months or 4 months ( xref )."

sparser
"The abnormal methylation of p16(INK4a) gene may not play a significant role in the early stage of breast cancinogenesis, but may play a role of in the progression of the cancer."

sparser
"TAC1 promoter methylation was significantly related to recurrence events, p16 methylation, E-cadherin methylation, and galanin methylation [ xref ]."

sparser
"Cluster analysis separated tumours based on single-gene driver events as well as large-scale aberrations, emphasizing lung adenocarcinoma’s molecular heterogeneity and combinatorial alterations, including the identification of coincident SETD2 mutations and CDKN2A methylation in a subset of CIMP-H tumours, providing evidence of a somatic event associated with a genome-wide methylation phenotype."

sparser
"Inhibition of JNK with SP600125 prevented the PM-induced increase in expression of DNMT1 protein ( xref ) and p16 methylation in these cells ( xref )."

sparser
"Methylation of DAPK and p16(INK4a) genes is a frequent event in this lymphoma at its initial presentation, but may not be associated with tumor progression."

sparser
"Whether p16 methylation testing could move toward routine clinical application as a prognostic tool in NSCLC, it depends on further study validation."

sparser
"Methylation of hMLH1 and p16 in CRC has recently been investigated in two separate studies using the methods of Southern blotting, methylated CpG island amplification and bisulfite-PCR [2,17] ."

sparser
"Whether exposure of gastric chemical carcinogens induces the full methylation of p16 in GC should be studied further."

sparser
"For all patients, a reverse correlation was only found between p16 methylation and clinical response (P = 0.017), which suggested that p16 methylation might be associated with chemosensitivity of fluorouracil in gastric cancer patients."

sparser
"This meta-analysis aimed to derive a more precise estimation of the relationships between p16 promoter methylation and the clinicopathologic features of CRC."

sparser
"Alterations in the microsatellite markers D17S855, D17S654, D16S421, TH2, D10S197, and D9S161, as well as point mutations in the p53 gene and aberrant methylation of p16(INK4a), were used to identify and characterize tumor and plasma DNA."

sparser
"Examination of 20 cases whose histological data for recurrent tumors were available revealed that malignant progression occurred in all of the tumors with p14(ARF) methylation but less frequently (50%) in the lesions with MGMT methylation."

sparser
"Only 12% of the cases showed p14 methylation."

sparser
"The expression of DeltaDNMT3B variants was associated with p16 and RASSF1A promoter methylation in the tumors, but the strongest association was between DeltaDNMT3B4 and RASSF1A. Forty-two of 46 (91%) tumors with RASSF1A promoter methylation expressed DeltaDNMT3B4 compared with only 13 of 73 (18%) tumors without the promoter methylation (P < 0.0001)."

sparser
"Methylated p16 INK4A and p14 ARF were observed to be significantly higher in RCC than in control subjects without malignancies (OR = 2.77, P = 0.005; OR = 11.73, P < 0.001, respectively)."

sparser
"Results demonstrated that the methylation of the MLH, PTEN, RUNX, RASSF, CDH1, MGMT and P16 genes and the related genes had no obvious difference in the 2D, 3D and Tis culture conditions."

sparser
"An important finding revealed that epigallocatechin-3-gallate altered the p16 methylation pattern from methylated to unmethylated as a result of folic acid deprivation [ xref ]."

sparser
"The reported rate of incidence of p16INK4A methylation in HCC is quite variable, ranging from 0 to 94%[ xref xref xref ] and from 29.4 to 83% in cirrhosis.[ xref xref xref ] Wong et al .,[ xref ] reported that p16INK4A methylation was neither detected in the plasma of patients with LC nor hepatitis."

sparser
"Moreover, only SHOX2 methylation was significantly higher in SCC than in AC, but P16 , RASSF1A or APC methylation had a similar level in SCC and AC."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 was detected postoperatively in 13.2% of the patients with no preoperative methylation, whereas methylation had disappeared postoperatively in 37.7% of the patients ( xref )."

sparser
"Apart from an association of p16 methylation with higher presenting leucocyte count (64.5 x 10(9)/l in methylated p16 and 16.0 x 10(9)/l in unmethylated p16 patients; p = 0.016), there was no association between p15 and p16 methylation and age, sex and Rai stage."

sparser
"Methylation of the p15 and p16 genes was detected, respectively, in 64% and 32% of the B-cell lymphomas, in 44% and 22% of the T-cell lymphomas, and in none of the 5 reactive lymph nodes analyzed."

sparser
"In addition, we identified evidence for methylation of p16(INK4a) in three of 11 resected mesothelioma tumor samples."

sparser
"Fisher's exact test revealed that p16 methylation levels correlated significantly with smoking status and the NSCLC cancer type in our patients."

sparser
"Old mice had a dramatically greater degree of p16 promoter methylation in all three diet groups at both 5 and 10 weeks ( P <0·001) compared with the corresponding young groups, since young mice demonstrated low methylation status regardless of their diet."

sparser
"There were no significant associations between the status of p16INK4A methylation and tumor size."

sparser
"Promoter methylation of the p16 gene was detected in about half [51.4% (55/107)] sputum DNA from noncancer individuals, a frequency higher than that observed for the RASSF1A (29.9%), MGMT (17.8%) and DAPK (15.9%) genes."

sparser
"28,29 Although aberrant methylation of the p16 gene has been observed in Barrett’s lesions of the esophagus, 30 there is no [MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"According to this analysis above, HCC pathogenesis associated with p16 methylation risk did not work during normal person, its role started from benign liver disease, while developing HCC, patients in HCC increased risk quickly, HCC pathogenesis had dramatically a powerful role."

sparser
"Although the large scaled and long-term follow up study is needed to conclude our result, the survival difference according to the disappearance of p16 methylation for node-positive gastric cancer could be meaningful in itself."

sparser
"According to the serial dilutions, the sensitivity of the three methods to detect DNA with a methylated p16 gene was 10% for the SB technique, 1:100 for the PCR after restriction enzyme digestion, and[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"We analyzed the methylation of P16INK4a and P14ARF in 80 tissues and matched blood samples of patients suffering from bladder cancer and 80 blood samples of cancer-free individuals by MS-PCR."

sparser
"In chromate lung cancer, there was no significant correlation between p16 methylation and age, stage or Brinkman index."

sparser
"The pooled +LR and −LR were 6.33 (95% CI 3.89–10.30) (Fig xref ) and 0.57 (95% CI 0.50–0.65) (Fig xref ), respectively, for P16 INK4a gene promoter methylation as a biomarker for the diagnosis of NSCLC."

sparser
"Aberrant methylation of the p16 gene was detected in 17 out of the 49 (34%) primary gastric carcinomas, suggesting that the aberrant methylation of p16 is frequently observed in gastric carcinomas."

sparser
"For example, examining 85 tumor samples of hepatocellular carcinoma patients from China, Egypt, U.K. plus Europe, and the U.S., xref found a significant difference in p16 methylation in tumors from China and Egypt (34.4%) compared to tumors from Europe and the U.S. (12.2%)."

sparser
"In conclusion, the aberrant methylation of CDKN2A gene and its special locus region may be a predictor for better prognosis in GC."

sparser
"A proportional relationship was observed between clinical stages and positive rates of p16 methylation in GCs and/or adjacent tissues: 27.3, 37.5, and 58.8% (by DHPLC) for stage-I, -II, -III-IV of GCs, respectively (two-sided Fisher's exact test P=0.016)."

sparser
"RASSF1A, APC, and CDKN2A methylation frequencies were 42.5%, 25%, and 32.8%, respectively."

sparser
"Finally, in 2013, Dang et al. ( xref ) studied the epigenetic changes in the promoter of microRNA-137 in 20 OLP tissue samples, 12 OSCC and 10 controls and observed methylation in both microRNA-137 and p16 protein in OLP patients although at a lesser extent than in OSCC patients."

sparser
"Methylation of p14(ARF) was found in 1/42 cases and alterations of p16(INK4a) occurred in 12/42 of pleomorphic adenomas, which correlated with loss of mRNA transcription."

sparser
"Of the 14 oropharynx cases that have disruptive TP53, only 3 have p16 methylation levels greater than 0."

sparser
"E-cadherin and p16 methylation occurs in nonneoplastic gastric epithelia at approximately 40 years of age."

sparser
"We did not find thatp16 INK4A promoter methylation was associated with sex, tumor grade, lymph node status, and tumor histology."

sparser
"The levels of IGFBP7 methylation were similar to the p16 methylation analysis with the highest number of IGFBP7 methylated samples in the SSAs with 22 out of 35 samples (62.86%) followed by HPs-35 IGFBP7 methylated samples out of 109 (32.11%)."

sparser
"Clinicopathological analysis revealed that p16 methylation in serum was significantly associated with later Dukes' stage (chi(2) = 5.7, P = 0.03)."

sparser
"The finding that the p16 gene was heavily methylated in this cell line excluded the possibility that hypermethylation did not occur in this cell line due to aberrant methylation machinery."

sparser
"Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that patients with p14(ARF) methylation had a significantly poorer prognosis than those without (p=0.029)."

sparser
"In liver tissue of chronically exposed males we observed the appearance of a strong methylated bands indicative of the de novo methylation of the p16 INKa promoter ( Fig. 2[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"In the present study, we demonstrated that the PPARA agonist, fenofibrate, inhibited DNMT1-mediated methylation of CDKN2A and exerted anticancer effects by promoting cell apoptosis, inhibiting cell migration, and suppressing cell proliferation via the CDKN2A/RB/E2F pathway."

sparser
"Indeed, correlation analysis showed a significant negative correlation between CDKN2A promoter methylation and age ( p  = 0.047, R  = −0.206)."

sparser
"RARB2, p16INK4a, and MGMT methylation were combined to APC methylation."

sparser
"Highly elevated MGMT, p16INK4a, and THBS1 methylation levels in gliomas serum were the sole independent factors predicting inferior overall survival in this cohort."

sparser
"All 10 genes except p14 were frequently methylated in EACs, with RUNX3, HPP1, CRBP1, RIZ1, and OST-2 representing novel methylation targets in EAC and/or BE."

sparser
"It was concluded that p16 promoter methylation were often associated with a high AMES risk group and advanced pTNM stages but had no correlation to sex or disease recurrence."

sparser
"P16(INK4a) methylation and gamma-tubulin gene amplification had a synergistic effect on tumor progression."

sparser
"Previous studies have revealed that promoter methylation of BRCA1 and RASSF1A is linked to a poor prognosis of breast cancer patients in OS and DFS.[ xref , xref ]There were some inconsistent and conflicting results on multivariate regression analysis of GSTP1 , p16 , ESR1, or PITX2 promoter methylation for the prognosis of breast cancer."

sparser
"p14 methylation has been comparatively less studied but has been shown to be hypermethylated in approximately 57% (34/60 samples) of melanoma samples, independently of the p16 promoter (88% of the time), but also in conjunction with p16 promoter methylation (12% of the time) [ xref ], findings that were later corroborated by additional studies [ xref ]."

sparser
"RNA expression of INK4b is also associated with CDKN2A nonpromoter methylation."

sparser
"P16 and p15 methylation was detected, respectively, in 28% and 60% of CD30 non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and in 38% and 42% of Hodgkin's neoplasms."

sparser
"The alternate or simultaneous presence of TP53 mutation and p14(ARF) methylation emerged as a univariate predictor of a shorter progression-free survival (P = 0.0456) but was not statistically significant when age and extent of surgery were included in the analysis."

sparser
"We showed that p16 protein expression was significantly associated with methylation of the p16 gene, indicating that p16 methylation may play a critical role in the silencing of this important tumor suppressor gene."

sparser
"They did not find a statistically significant association between p16 promoter methylation and HPV 16 status, regardless of cytology status ( xref )."

sparser
"Methylations of MGMT, WIF-1 and CDKN2A were detected in significantly higher percentages of protruded-type tumors than in flat-type tumors."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 and/or p15 genes was detected in 15 HLs."

sparser
"In contrast, the frequencies of methylation of p16, APC, and CDH13 genes were significantly higher in NSCLC than in neuroendocrine tumors."

sparser
"PCR products of p16 gene methylation were visualized on 4% AGE."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 was observed in 56% (28/50) of the cases."

sparser
"In the SWS cohort, lower umbilical cord CDKN2A DMR methylation predicted increased adiposity at ages 1, 4 and 6 years but not at birth, suggesting that CDKN2A methylation may be linked to the gain of fat mass postnatally."

sparser
"In this study, we aimed to detect the aberrant promoter methylation of P16 in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) from NSCLC, and we found that the technique was feasibility."

sparser
"P16 methylation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of BPD."

sparser
"We investigated methylation of the p16 gene in some samples lacking homozygous deletions of this gene."

sparser
"Thus, the prognostic effect of CDKN2A promoter methylation remains uncertain."

sparser
"In summary, our study showed that miR-217 plays an important role in the HSF senescence through a mechanism involving the regulation of p16 and pRb methylation levels via targeting DNMT1."

sparser
"However, such association was not observed in colorectal cancer but patients with CDKN2A gene promoter methylation and/or loss of CDKN2A (p16) were connected to a decrease in OS [ xref ]."

sparser
"Subgroup analysis stratified by KRAS mutation and p16 methylation."

sparser
"Consequently, we were unable to assess the dependence on cellular heterogeneity of the association of CDKN2A methylation in blood and BMI, and therefore cannot exclude differences in cellular composition as the explanation for the association between CDKN2A methylation in peripheral blood and adiposity in late adolescence."

sparser
"Dukes'staging was associated with p16 methylation status."

sparser
"Effect of long-term acid treatment on NOX5-S expression, p16 promoter methylation, mPGES1 and iNOS expression."

sparser
"Aberrant p16 methylation was detected in both hepatocellular carcinoma tissues and plasma/serum samples by xref two decades ago. xref found that the methylation status of γ-glutamyl transferase gene altered and γ-glutamyl transferase expressed abnormally in hepatocellular carcinoma. xref identified around 3,700 hypomethylated promotors in liver cancer samples."

sparser
"The purpose of the study was to evaluate the clinical sensitivity and specificity of pyrosequencing INK4A methylation assay using serum DNA of HCC patients."

sparser
"In this study, there was a striking correlation between age at diagnosis and gender and CDKN2A promoter methylation, with a predominance of methylated CDKN2A in young female patients."

sparser
"Relationship between GX and MSI or Methylation of hMLH1, CDKN2A or APC in Patients with Early GC Treated by ESD."

sparser
"The results show that methylation at the p15 gene is frequently associated with p16 methylation in NHL, and suggest that selective methylation of p15, although uncommon, could be a specific alteration implicated in T cell NHL."

sparser
"In the GUSTO cohort, there were associations between the methylation of CDKN2A with measures of adiposity from 7 days after birth."

sparser
"P16 methylation was analyzed using the MethyLight assay."

sparser
"Therefore, p16 promoter methylation cannot be used as a marker for diagnosing the early stage of ovarian cancer."

sparser
"MLH1 methylation was seen in 11.1% of duodenal adenomas and was significantly associated with CIMP+ tumors, while p16 methylation was an infrequent event."

sparser
"So, the multivariate analysis cannot be performed, and it cannot be exactly known whether p16 methylation is a prognostic factor, independently of as known clinical factors, such as age, sex, differentiation, stages, and performance status."

sparser
"Hu et al. reported Cr-induced methylation of the p16 gene, a tumor suppressor gene, in the same cell line ( xref )."

sparser
"The secondary and tertiary outcomes included histologic change and measurements of biologically relevant markers, including COX-1 and –2 mRNA, prostanoid levels, and methylation of tumor suppressor genes p16, APC, and E-cadherin."

sparser
"In the multivariate analysis, the poor prognosis associated with concurrent methylation in NEUROG1 and CDKN2A (p16) in male was independent of other clinico-pathologic prognostic factors (adjusted HR for OS 5.23, 95 % CI 2.45–11.17, p  < 0.001) (adjusted HR for DFS 3.66, 95 % CI 1.82–7.36, p  < 0.001) (Table  xref )."

sparser
"And further assess the clinical value of P16 gene promoter methylation as a biomarker for gastric cancer diagnosis."

sparser
"The results from bronchial aspirates showed that a significant correlation was observed between the methylation of the P16 (OR = 8.15, 95% CI = 3.18 - 20.87, P < 0.001), RASSF1A (OR = 32.60, 95% CI = 19.21 - 55.32, P < 0.001), APC (OR = 11.88, 95% CI = 4.75 - 29.72, P < 0.001) and SHOX2 (OR = 50.10, 95% CI = 30.30 - 82.84, P < 0.001) genes with lung cancer in more than four studies, including 840 lung cancer patients and 800 controls (Figure xref ), 980 lung cancer patients and 733 controls (Figure xref ), 360 patients with lung cancer and 273 controls (Figure xref ), and 493 patients with lung cancer and 415 controls (Figure xref ), respectively."

sparser
"Pb exposure was correlated with increased methylation of the ALAD and p16 genes."

sparser
"The hTERT, WT1 and p16 INK4A methylation showed 12.9%, 9.7% and 12.9% sensitivity, respectively, and 100% specificity ( xref )."

sparser
"Significant differences in the oral cancer rate were observed during the followup between patients (≥60 years) with and without methylated- p16 as detected by the 115-bp MethyLight assay (6/8 vs. 6/22, P = 0.034, two-sided)."

sparser
"The simultaneous assaying of the p16 protein expression, p16 methylation and p16 gene deletion was possible in only 46 cases."

sparser
"Hence, the present study aimed to investigate whether PTEN and p16 promoter methylations were involved in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) in south Indian subjects."

sparser
"The methylation of p16 and shp1 genes in plasma were detected by methylation specific polymerase chain reaction in 103 patients with B-NHL, and compared with peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) and formaldehyde-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor tissues."

sparser
"In this investigation, we used p16 methylation as a target to detect tumor DNA in the serum of colorectal cancer patients."

sparser
"The base model had relatively fair predictive capacity (AUC, 0.816) for ESCC and HGIN, which was significantly increased by adding P16 methylation in cytology specimens (model III; AUC, 0.882; p  = 0.043)."

sparser
"Therefore, the researchers have concluded that ΔNp63 is a good and highly specific blood marker for early detection of ESCC. xref Hibi et al. found a high rate of promoter methylation of the p16 gene in the serum of ESCC patients, which suggested that p16 gene promoter methylation may be used as a serum marker for identifying precursor lesions of ESCC. xref "

sparser
"Since the four CpG loci associated with CDKN2A were not present in the Illumina platform used to generate TCGA data sets, we confirmed the association between methylation of the downstream region of CDKN2A and HPV status by using an alternate CpG locus in the same CDKN2A downstream region not present in our panel but found in the TCGA data set (Table xref )."

sparser
"Even though a high frequency of p14 ARF promoter methylation has been previously reported to occur in tumors without TP53 mutations [ xref , xref , xref , xref ], an inverse correlation between TP53 mutations and epigenetic inactivation of p14 ARF in CRCs does not always hold true [ xref ]."

sparser
"Kim et al. also reported that p16 methylation was associated with smoking packyears, duration and time since quitting [55] ."

sparser
"Quantification and distribution of p14 ARF promoter methylation in tumors and normal colon mucosa from patients with colorectal cancer."

sparser
"In conclusion, we believe that the data shown here describe a frequent mechanism of de novo methylation of the p16INK4 suppressor gene."

sparser
"We determined loss of heterozygosity, gene mutations, promoter methylation of CDH1 and CDKN2A, and HBV DNA copy number for each tumor."

sparser
"The present results indicated that the methylation of p16, CDH1, MGMT, and hMLH1 was both frequent and specific in gastric cancer tissues."

sparser
"And Ko et al. retrospectively analyzed CpG island hypermethylation of the p16 in fresh-frozen tissues from 265 patients with HCC using the methylation-specific PCR and suggested that p16 methylation m[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"To assess the associations ofP16 INK4a methylation status with low-grade squamous intra-epithelial lesion (LSIL), high-grade squamous intra-epithelial lesion (HSIL), cervical cancer (CC) and their clinicopathological features, a meta-analysis with 29 eligible studies was conducted."

sparser
"When controlled for pathologic stage, promoter methylation of the individual genes APC, CDH13, MGMT, RASSF1, WIF1, ADAMTS8, GSTP1, and CDKN2A in primary tumor tissue was not significantly associated with RFS."

sparser
"The Val/Val genotype held a significantly higher risk of p16 methylation (OR=3.27, 95% CI=1.05-10.25, p=0.0418)."

sparser
"Intriguingly, p16 INK4A promoter methylation predominantly occurred in NRAS -mutant cases indicating an association between the two events."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 was also assayed in surgical lung cancer specimens and detected at high rates in tumor tissue compared to normal lung (Kim et al., xref ; Zöchbauer-Muller et al., xref )."

sparser
"Methylation of various genes, including retinoic acid receptor 2 beta ( RAR-b2 ), H-cadherin , APC , p16 and RASSFF1A was described in bronchial epithelial cells of heavy smokers. xref Moreover, methylation of p16 , GSTP1 and DAPK was reported to be evident in bronchial brushings of one third of the cancer-free smokers examined. xref In the same study by Belinsky et al ., as mentioned before, methylation of p16 was detected in epithelia of cancer-free smokers. xref A more detailed list of aberrant gene promoter methylation in lung cancer patients and cancer-free smokers is nicely summarized and explained in the review by Heller et al . xref "

sparser
"Methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction was used to detect the methylation of p15 and p16."

sparser
"In a second step, we evaluated the impact of CDKN2A methylation on clinical outcome in a series of 432 patients with colorectal cancers."

sparser
"Aberrant promoter methylation of p16 and p14 genes was detected in 43 of 86 (50%) and 25 of 86 (29%) colorectal cancers, respectively."

sparser
"These results indicate that p16 and FHIT methylation may be one of the earliest events and an important mechanism for gene silencing in esophageal squamous cell carcinogenesis."

sparser
"In a UK cohort of 144 children, investigators used umbilical cord blood to examine the relationship between prenatal antisense non-coding RNA in the INK4 locus ( ANRIL) promoter DNA methylation and risk markers of coronary heart disease ( xref )."

sparser
"Moreover, GSTP1 and P16 methylation in promoter region could obviously increase the risk of HBV-related HCC in patients with cirrhosis, indicating that these would be promising biomarkers for early clinical diagnosis of HBV-related HCC."

sparser
"HMEC cultured in a serum-free medium spontaneously yield rare variant (vHMEC) cells in which p16 genes are methylated and silenced at frequencies that differ among normal specimens from women [ xref ]."

sparser
"The detection of CDKN2A methylation in a high fraction of lung cancer patient plasma samples bodes well for its application to non-invasive detection [ xref ]."

sparser
"The MethyLight assay was used to provide quantitative estimates of MLH1, P16, TIMP3, P14, DAPK and APC methylation levels in 199 unselected colorectal tumours."

sparser
"This result suggests that p16 methylation may be a useful marker for predicting response to chemotherapy, and provides evidence of a treatment interaction."

sparser
"Therefore, we cannot answer whether the poor prognosis of patients with concurrent methylation in NEUROG1 and CDKN2A (p16) is due to its innate biology or its resistance to adjuvant chemotherapy regimen."

sparser
"Aberrant DNA methylation of P16, MGMT and HMLH1 and polymorphisms of MTHFR C677T and A1298C were detected using PCR-RFLP."

sparser
"We found a significant difference in maximal tumor size ( P =0.022) when patients with both p16 and p14 methylation were compared to other patients."

sparser
"The highest rate of p16 gene methylation in tumors was found among MALT (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue) lymphomas in which the percentage of cases with p16 gene methylation reached 67%."

sparser
"Therefore, we carried out a meta-analysis to improve our understanding of the role of methylated CDKN2A in the carcinogenesis of cervical cancer."

sparser
"The aberrant promoter methylation of p14ARF is a common phenomenon in ESCC, which may be an important mechanism of downregulating p14ARF mRNA expression."

sparser
"All epithelial areas of pleomorphic adenomas with aberrant methylation of the p16 INK4a or p14 ARF gene showed a complete loss of immunoreactvity of the two corresponding proteins, whereas the mesench[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"In the current study we have demonstrated that promoter methylation of hMLH1 and 06-MGMT was frequently seen in premalignant endometrial tissue, whereas P16 promoter methylation was more frequently observed in EC."

sparser
"In sputum from patients with squamous cell lung carcinoma, aberrant methylation of p16 or MGMT was shown to be detectable up to 3 years before diagnosis [ xref ]."

sparser
"We determined levels of p16 promoter methylation and of p16 protein expression, in association with functional linkage factors such as cyclin D1, cyclin E, pRb, DP-1, and E2F-1 in a series of GISTs of[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Methylation of p14(ARF) was found in 3/25 cases (12%) and alterations in p16(INK4a) occurred in 6/25 liver cell adenomas (24%) which correlated with loss of mRNA transcription."

sparser
"Our observation that methylation of p14 ARF does not exclude p16 INK4a methylation, is in accordance with previous studies [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Results showed that p16 methylation frequency was correlated with the severity of gastric pathologic lesions, positively."

sparser
"Whether INK4A methylation can be used to measure exposure and the effect of specific risk factors will be tested in follow-up studies."

sparser
"These results suggest that aberrant DNA methylation of E-cadherin and p16 genes may play important roles in development of lung adenocarcinomas induced by BHP in rats."

sparser
"P16 and RASSF1A methylation was found to be significantly associated with advanced clinical stages, poorly differentiated tumors, and severe cellular atypia [ xref ]."

sparser
"Despite its well-established role in carcinogenesis, CDKN2A (p16) promoter methylation or loss of expression in colorectal cancer is not independently associated with patient prognosis."

sparser
"Our results suggest that inactivation of the RB1 pathway may play a causal role in pituitary tumorigenesis, with hypermethylation of the p16(INK4a) gene being the most common deregulation, and further provide evidence that RB1 and p16(INK4a) methylations tend to be mutually exclusive but occasionally coincide with p15(INK4b) methylation."

sparser
"It is well documented that HPV infection induced overexpression p16 in OSCCs [ xref – xref ], however, Weiss’s study did not show any significantly difference frequencies of p16 INK4a promoter methylation between HPV16 positive cancer and HPV16 negative cancer [ xref ]."

sparser
"However, the regulatory mechanism of p16 promoter methylation remains unknown."

sparser
"No statistically significant differences in total surface area of the Barrett's esophagus; in prostaglandin levels; in cyclooxygenase-1/2 mRNA levels; or in methylation of tumor suppressor genes p16, adenomatous polyposis coli, and E-cadherin were found with celecoxib compared with placebo."

sparser
"There was no association between p16 INK4A promotor methylation and age (p = 0.89) and sex (p = 0.56)."

sparser
"We used the NOK keratinocyte cell line as a model of preneoplastic keratinocytes because it harbors two frequent genetic events in HNSCC, CDKN2A promoter methylation and TP53 mutation, but does not form tumors."

sparser
"The p16 methylation status correlated with squamous histology (p=0.03) and smoking status (never smoker vs. smoker; p=0.0122)."

sparser
"A two-step MSPCR method for assaying p14(ARF) methylation in human tumors is described."

sparser
"Plasma cells from 33 patients with MGUS and 33 patients with MM were isolated and analyzed for p15(INK4b) and p16(INK4a) methylation by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction."

sparser
"In contrast, the association of cyclin D1 with p27 loss, p16 loss, CDKN2A (p16) methylation, p14 methylation or p53 expression did not persist after stratification by MSI status (data not shown)."

sparser
"P14ARF was methylated in 3 of 15 (20%) adenocarcinomas."

sparser
"P16 methylation increased from 2.2% (SE = 0.09) to 2.4% (SE = 0.09) (difference = 0.2, 95% CI = 0.04; 0.3)."

sparser
"A much higher proportion of methylated p16 was detected in GCs with metastases (local or distant) than without metastases (14.76 vs 2.61%; t-test P=0.014)."

sparser
"However, no was observed that the changing regularity and role of p16 methylation risk in HCC histological process."

sparser
"Similar CDKN2A methylation patterns have been observed in gastric and nasopharyngeal carcinoma [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"The relative p16 mRNA level in 14 GCs with methylated- p16 was significantly lower than that in 26 GCs without methylated- p16 [ΔCt ( mean ± SD ), 12.79±2.77 versus 8.51±3.32, P <0.001; higher ΔCt value means lower mRNA level]."

sparser
"Increasing amounts of iAs in urine were found to be positively correlated with p16 promoter methylation, whereas less toxic DMA was negatively correlated with p16 promoter methylation."

sparser
"At presentation, 93 % of cases of AML (8 of 8 M1, 10 of 11 M2, 2 of 2 M4, 5 of 6 M5, and 2 of 2 M6; French-American-British classification system) showed p15 methylation, but none showed p16 methylation."

sparser
"Change in NAF PGE 2 was not related to change in methylation of p16, APC, nor CCND2 , whereas the change in the fraction of methylated RASSF-1a DNA after treatment ( P = 0.045) positively correlated with the change in NAF PGE 2 ( xref )."

sparser
"Epigenetic modifications such as increased promoter hypermethylation of genes implicated in lung cancer (e.g., p16 ) with histologic progression from normal to AAH and finally LUAD [ xref ], as well as DNA methylation of CDKN2A and PTPRN2, have also been reported in AAHs [ xref ]."

sparser
"Methylatedp16 INK4A was significantly associated with tumor size, in which it was higher in pT2-4 patients than in pT1 patients, suggesting thatp16 INK4A promoter methylation may play a key role in the pathogenesis of T2-4, whereas methylatedp14 ARF was not significantly correlated with tumor size."

sparser
"LEA et al. xref found that aberrant methylation of p16 gene is strongly correlated with active tobacco exposure in cervical high-grade dysplasia and SCC."

sparser
"Our data, thus, provide evidence that p16 methylation may at least partly facilitate transcriptional repression of the p16 gene in GISTs."

sparser
"Here we found that fetal growth faltering between week 34 of gestation and birth was associated with lower CDKN2A methylation (Fig. S1, Table S1)."

sparser
"DNA methylation of 2 genes, VHL and CDKN2A , were especially analyzed in the 16 RCCs arising in ESRD because they are known to be epigenetically silenced in small subsets of sporadic ccRCCs ( VHL , 7%‐10%), xref , xref , xref , xref PRCCs ( CDKN2A , 6.2%) xref and ChRCCs ( CDKN2A , 6.1%). xref However, we did not find either VHL or CDKN2A methylation in ESRD‐ccRCCs or ACD‐associated RCCs (Table  xref )."

sparser
"Global DNA methylation, p16 promoter methylation and p16 expression were determined by LC/MS, methyl-specific PCR and real time RT-PCR, respectively."

sparser
"Our observations indicate that promoter methylation of p16 was not modified by chronic alcohol consumption for 10 weeks, regardless of if mild folate depletion was also present."

sparser
"In the samples with both methylated and unmethylated promoter regions, the possibility exists that the wild type mRNA was transcribed from unmethylated p16INK4A, whereas the aberrant type came from th[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Among the 20 tumors with p14 ARF methylation, 10 were also methylated at the adjacent p16 INK4a gene ( P = 0.067)."

sparser
"P16(INK4a) expression was repressed by HBx protein via DNA methylation of p16(INK4a), which can induce the malignant transformation tendency of Chang cells."

sparser
"Aberrant p16, p16 methylation, or p16 loss in nondysplastic BE is associated with an increased risk of progression to LGD."

sparser
"In this study, the frequency of CIMP in non-IM, which shows widespread CpG island methylation including various genes/loci such as CDH1 , CDKN2A , MINT1, and MINT31 methylation, decreased significantly with H . pylori eradication."

sparser
"The prognostic role of p16 methylation in NSCLC has been investigated over the past decade, with conflicting results from different literatures."

sparser
"Unlike MLH1, APC, and APC2 for which the methylation was equally distributed all over the colon, p16 methylation was twice as frequently located in the right colon (67%) as in the left side ( xref )."

sparser
"Further, CDKN2A promoter methylation is observed in rat lung tumors induced by exposure to various mutagenic agents (X-rays, plutonium-239 oxide, beryllium metal, cigarette smoke) indicating that the methylation induction can occur in response to different types of environmental insults."

sparser
"These results indicate that p16 gene methylation is a frequent event in NHLs, mainly in MALT lymphomas, and suggest that it could be an important mechanism of inactivation of this gene."

sparser
"Moreover, p16 methylation was more frequent in cases with concomitant accumulation of p53 and loss of p16 proteins i.e. 17/20 (85%), compared to the cases with p16 expressed and p53 negative, 4/11 (36.36%) (P = 0.01)."

sparser
"Indeed, multiple studies have detectedp16 INK4A methylation with frequencies as high as 85% [ xref – xref ]."

sparser
"These results suggest that methylation of the p15(INK4B) and p16(INK4A) genes is an epigenetic biomarker of pediatric disease evolution."

sparser
"In our cohort of HNC patients treated with surgery with or without post-operative radiation, p16 methylation status alone was found to be associated with a significant difference in survival when analyzing the entire group."

sparser
"In conclusion, the results demonstrate that aberrant methylation of p16 INK4a promoter was associated with human ovarian cancer, suggesting that promoter methylation of p16 INK4a plays a crucial role in human ovarian cancer."

sparser
"To test whether the enhancement of p16 methylation contributes to the increase of cell proliferation, the Cd-exposed cells were further treated with 0.5 or 1 μM 5-aza-dC, an inhibitor of DNA methyltra[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"This suggests a relationship between aberrant methylation of CDKN2A and the aberrant mutation of TP53, as well as the mechanism leading to microvascular invasion."

sparser
"This hypothesis has been validated in two studies, the first detecting methylation of the p16 and MGMT genes in sputum up to 3 years prior to clinical diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma ( xref )."

sparser
"Furthermore, promoter methylation of both CDKN2A (p14ARF) and MGMT has been associated with tumour stage and the addition of GSTP1 and TIMP3 promoter methylation allowed to discriminate invasive tumours [ xref ]."

sparser
"Methylation in the CDKN2A has been associated with various malignant diseases, but information with respect to urinary bladder cancer is lacking in north Indian population."

sparser
"CDKN2A methylation level and frequency were associated with high grade tumors (p = 0.0001 and p = 0.0005) but were not associated with disease stage or serum CA125 levels."

sparser
"Similarly, P16 DNA methylation and subsequent repression of P16 expression was also induced by P16-Dnmt in the BGC823 cell line (Additional file xref : Figure S1)."

sparser
"This is accomplished either by p53 exon 8 deletion (HDLM2) or p14 methylation (L540, KMH2), no genetic alterations being observed in the L428 cell line."

sparser
"Betel quid and tobacco chewing habit synergistically with p16 methylation elevated the risk for esophageal cancer development (adjusted odds ratio (OR) = 6.88, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.64-28.81, p = 0.003 for betel quid chewing and adjusted OR = 7.02, 95% CI = 1.87-26.38, p = 0.001 for tobacco chewing)."

sparser
"The frequency of P16 promoter methylation was 25.8% in BBT and 11.1% in MBT (P = 0.12)."

sparser
"We examined whether this phenomenon would also occur in HCC patients by analysing CDKN2A methylation and expression in HCC patients from TCGA and GSE56588 cohorts (for which methylation and expression data are available: 205/224 patients)."

sparser
"Because most GC samples were sMSP-positive (36/40), we had to use other assay to detect p16 methylation in GC samples to analyze the methylation-repression relationship in GC samples."

sparser
"In the experimental group, P16 methylation was demonstrated in 10 samples (40%), which demonstrated a significant difference between the groups (P<0.05; xref and xref )."

sparser
"Recent data indicate K- ras -2 mutations induce P16 methylation accompanied by inactivation of the p16 gene."

sparser
"The methylation status of five genes- CACNA1G, IGF2, NEUROG1, RUNX3, and SOCS126 may identify CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) positive colon cancers, which are characterized by high incidence of p16 and THBS1 methylation and frequent KRAS and BRAF mutations ( xref ; xref )."

sparser
"Aber­rant promoter methylation of p16 and MGMT genes in lung tumors from smoking and never-smoking lung cancer patients."

sparser
"Furthermore, subclones of the monoclones consistently maintained the same p16 methylation pattern."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 was present in about 70% of GC samples, while there was almost no p16 methylation in normal samples ( xref )."

sparser
"DNA methylation of DCC , EDNRB , DAPK , CCNA1 , p16 , HOXA9 and KIF1A genes have been detected in primary tissues and biological fluids, including saliva and plasma [ xref , xref , xref , xref ], derived from HNSCC patients."

sparser
"Neither urinary cadmium nor blood cadmium concentrations were correlated with p16 or MLH1 methylation ( r S < 0.1)."

sparser
"On the other hand, p16 gene specific methylation showed stepwise increases in both diet groups during the 17 month study period, which is consistent with a previous young and old mouse study [ xref ] ( xref )."

sparser
"DNA methylation is a type of epigenetic change that can result in tumor suppressor genes being inactivated, and methylation of the tumor suppressor gene p16 has frequently been associated with the development of cancer."

sparser
"The overall sensitivity and specificity of prediction of malignant transformation of oral epithelial dysplasia by p16 methylation were 63.6% and 67.9%, respectively."

sparser
"In male liver tissue, p16(INKa) promoter methylation was more pronounced than in female tissue."

sparser
"In support of an epigenetic hypothesis for the breast cancer effects of BPA, in vitro studies with human mammary epithelial cells documented that low dose exposure (<~0.2 µM) to BPA increased DNA methylation of BRCA-1 andp16 INK4 [ xref ]."

sparser
"Methylation of p16(INK4A) and p57(KIP2) are involved in the development and progression of gastric MALT lymphomas."

sparser
"Aberrant methylation of CDKN2A, CDKN2B, APC , and BRCA2 in initial benign, recurrent and subsequent transformation biopsies[ xref ] indicate these as early events and provides evidence of a monoclonal progression continuum to SCC ( xref )."

sparser
"Detecting the methylation of BRCA1 and p16 gene together with CA15-3 is helpful for specific diagnosis of breast cancer, and has a predictive value for tumor recurrence."

sparser
"The sensitivity of RASSF1A methylation was 17.16%, while the sensitivity of P16 methylation, PCDHGB7 methylation, SFN methylation and HMLH1 methylation were 22.39%, 55.60%, 73.51% and 27.99%, respectively [ xref ]."

sparser
"The p16 methylation in the distal stomach epithelium was higher than that in the proximal stomach."

sparser
"Varying degrees of p16 methylation has been reported in OSCC (Ohta et al. xref ; Ruesga et al. xref ; Nakahara et al. xref ; Huang et al. xref ; Yakushiji et al. xref ; Nakahara et al. xref ; Miracca et al. xref ; Riese et al. xref ; El-Naggar et al. xref ; Tao et al. xref ; González et al. xref ; Reed et al. xref ), in mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) of the salivary glands (Guo et al. xref ; Agnese et al. xref ), in HNC (Yalniz et al. xref ; Koscielny et al. xref ; Ai et al. xref ), and in larynx cancer (Smigiel et al. xref )."

sparser
"PITX2 promoter methylation was significantly correlated with an unfavorable prognosis of breast cancer patients in OS, but no significant correlation was found between p16 promoter methylation and OS."

sparser
"According to the published articles, high specificity and low sensitivity were found in this meta-analysis for the p16 gene promoter methylation in the diagnosis of NSCLC."

sparser
"This study provides experimental evidence that strongly implicates P16 DNA methylation as a driver in cancer metastasis."

sparser
"We also found no association between p16 methylation and the main cytogenetic categories, although it was more common among patients with 17p13.1 deletions (p53 locus), a genetic progression event in MM."

sparser
"Of 18 distant normal mucosal biopsies, 6 (33%) of these showed evidence of aneuploidy and 15(83%) of them showed methylated p16 genes."

sparser
"A simultaneous methylation of the adjacent p14ARF promoter was seen in 22% of those specimens with positive p16INK4a methylation ( xref )."

sparser
"Besides, p16 methylation was significantly higher among patients (> 60 years) but not among the others (≤ 60 years)."

sparser
"There is a possibility that the association between CDKN2A methylation and RNA expression may be a consequence of chromatin conformation with more of a regional effect on gene expression."

sparser
"MGMT and p16 acquired methylation at relapse."

sparser
"Frequent p15 hypermethylation was demonstrated in children and adults with AML, whereas p16 methylation has rarely been observed [21] ."

sparser
"Promoter methylation of MGMT, p16, DAPK, and RASSF1A was detected in 11 of 28 (39.3 %), 15 of 27 (53.6 %), 9 of 26 (34.3 %), and 13 of 26 (50 %) serum samples, respectively."

sparser
"Of 44 patients with p16 promoter methylation in tumor DNA, 13 (30%) demonstrated abnormal methylation in their serum DNA."

sparser
"Postoperative disappearance of p16 methylation could be an available prognostic factor for node-positive gastric cancer."

sparser
"The conflicting findings related to p14 and p16 methylation frequencies may be due to different factors, such as gender, diet, stress, environment, and so on."

sparser
"Our major findings are a) methylation status of any single gene was largely independent of methylation status of other genes; b) the rates of methylation of p16 and APC and the mean Methylation Index (MI), a reflection of the overall methylation status, were significantly higher in ever smokers than in never smokers; c) the mean MI of tumors arising in former smokers was significantly lower than the mean of current smokers; d) the methylation rates of APC, CDH13 and RARbeta were significantly higher in adenocarcinomas than in squamous cell carcinomas; e) methylation rates of MGMT and GSTP1 were significantly higher in the USA and Australian cases than in those from Japan and Taiwan; and (f) no significant gender-related differences in methylation patterns were noted."

sparser
"The methylation of the p16 and RAR-β genes in the K562 cells was detected using the methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method."

sparser
"As shown in Figure xref , we found a statistical difference between HCC tumor tissues and adjacent tissues for p16 methylation in China from 28 studies (OR = 4.88, 95% CI = 3.50–6.81, I 2 = 66%, p < 0.00001) and in Japan from 6 studies (OR = 8.43, 95% CI = 3.71–19.19, I 2 = 68%, p < 0.00001), but not in Germany from 3 studies ( p = 0.12, I 2 = 86%)."

sparser
"In patients achieving CR the average CDKN2A promoter methylation was decreased compared to prestudy (median fold-change = 0.76), while in patients achieving CRi the average CDKN2A promoter methylation was increased compared to prestudy (median fold-change = 1.26)."

sparser
"Promoter methylation in p16INK4a has been reported previously in FA tumors reflecting that p16 inactivation might play a role in the pathogenesis of these tumors."

sparser
"The gel was stained with ethidium bromide 48 p16 and MGMT Gene Promoter Methylation in Lung Tumors and Tobacco Smoking Liu et al. Table 2."

sparser
"After sex, season, SO 2 level, temperature, and age were adjusted, the results showed that every 1 μg/m 3 increase of PM 2.5 resulted in 0.04% increase of p16 CDKN2A promoter methylation in blood DNA, 0.02% and 0.06% decrease of LINE - 1 and iNOS methylation in lung tissue DNA, 0.01% and 0.01% increase of APC and p16 CDKN2A promoter methylation in lung tissue DNA, and 0.64 and 0.66 ng/mg protein increase of H3K9ac from PBMC and lung tissue histone, respectively."

sparser
"Pleural p16 methylation test plays a useful role in the diagnosis of MPE."

sparser
"These changes were sex- and tissue-specific in p16 (INKa) promoter methylation."

sparser
"The p16 methylation score significantly increased with tumor stage (stage I=0.94+/-0.47, stage 11=2.33+/-0.90, stage 111=8.49+/-2.37, stage IV=10.03+/-4.30) (p=0.021; ANOVA)."

sparser
"This consistency was also supported by a previous study that analyzed APC and CDKN2A methylation and found a high correlation between the results from these two techniques [ xref ]."

sparser
"Stratification of plutonium exposure into tertiles also revealed a striking dose response for methylation of the p16 gene (P = 0.008)."

sparser
"However, methylation at p14 ARF may also have important implications; methylation of both p14 ARF and p16 INK4a was reported among the more invasive forms of sporadic colorectal cancer [ xref ]."

sparser
"No statistically significant differences between p16 ink4a methylation and E1/E2 integrity, in histological groups, was observed."

sparser
"Aberrant promoter methylation of p15 (INK⁴b) and p16 (INK⁴a) genes may contribute to the pathogenesis of multiple myeloma: a meta-analysis."

sparser
"The overall p16 methylation profiles constructed from a panel of clinical specimens may approximate the natural extension pattern of de novo methylation of p16 CpG islands in gastric carcinogenesis."

sparser
"In addition, the frequency of CDKN2A promoter methylation was higher in HPV-negative tumors than in positive cases."

sparser
"In contrast, no significant radiation-induced changes in p16(INKa) promoter methylation were noted in the muscle tissue of exposed males and females."

sparser
"In OSCC samples, p16 methylation has been reported at a frequency of 27–76% [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Exon 2 in p16 INK4a was frequently methylated in the prostate carcinomas examined in this study."

sparser
"We performed a sensitivity analysis by deleting an individual study to evaluate the change of the pooled OR and heterogeneity in the analysis of the P16 methylation status with substantial heterogeneity (I 2 = 62.2%, P = 0.003)."

sparser
"We observed that the frequency of CDKN2A methylation was significantly higher in pancreatic cancer patients than in normal healthy controls, the pooled OR = 17.19, 95% CI = 8.72–33.86, P < 0.00001."

sparser
"However, these results were only seen in certain subsets of patients (older or younger) in this small study and were not confirmed with multivariate analysis.( xref ) In another report of 78 cases with oral epithelial dysplasia, the rate of progression to oral cancer in lesions with p16 methylation was significantly higher than when p16 was not methylated."

sparser
"In lung fibroblast cells, Cd exposure resulted in an increased in DNA methylation of p16 and an upregulation of DNMT3b [ xref ]."

sparser
"Methylation of p16 INK4a exhibited a significant correlation with LSIL persistence/progression."

sparser
"p21(waf1) and p16(INK4a) were reduced in proportion to the degree of methylation in p16(INK4a) gene."

sparser
"A number of nested case-control studies and followup cohorts consistently showed p16 methylation as a potential biomarker for the early prediction of malignant transformation of epithelial dysplasia, one kind of precancerous lesion in many organs/tissues including the oral/oesophageal/gastric mucosa [ xref - xref ]."

sparser
"In contrast, here, we reveal that P16 methylation can increase the sensitivity of lung and stomach cancers to palbociclib."

sparser
"CS also affects the downstream pathways such as p16 promoter methylation, proteosomal activation and genetic alterations in KRAS , p53 , FGIT , CDKN2 , CDK6 and MYC ."

sparser
"Aberrant p16 methylation was found in 11% (4/36) of primary tumors and 8% (3/36) of plasma samples."

sparser
"A statistically significant association between p14ARF methylation status and mRNA expression was found (p=0.0441)."

sparser
"This study provides evidence strongly supporting that P16 methylation could be used as a biomarker for predicting the malignant transformation of OED early in the course of the disease."

sparser
"In order to detect methylation of either the p14ARF or the p16INK4a promoter a methylation-specific PCR protocol was applied."

sparser
"CIMP-H tumors showed near-ubiquitous methylation of the tumor suppressor CDKN2A in gastric and colon MSI tumors ( xref )."

sparser
"The precise mechanism(s) of the association between tobacco smoking and increased frequencies of p16 and MGMT gene promoter methylation remains to be deter­mined."

sparser
"This analysis yielded 2 subgroups of GISTs, of which cluster B featured aggressive clinical behavior and had a higher level of p16 methylation in combination with reduced expression of pRb."

sparser
"Only 1 case of endometriosis (2.17%), classified as atypical, showed abnormal methylation of p16."

sparser
"P16 gene methylation correlates with adverse prognostic features."

sparser
"P16 methylation was assessed by methylation-specific PCR."

sparser
"Homogenous CDKN2A methylation was found in two lung cancer cell lines (H1355 and Calu-1) and was estimated to be 100% ( xref )."

sparser
"To further investigate the clinical impact of p16(INK4a) methylation in DLBCL, promoter methylation of this gene was assessed quantitatively by pyrosequencing."

sparser
"These data support p16 methylation as a potential biomarker for early detection of PCa."

sparser
"DNA methylation of the p16 5' CpG island was determined by bisulfite genomic sequencing, while methylation of exon 2 shared by the p16 and p14 genes was measured by a quantitative bisulfite-based technique, methylation-sensitive single-nucleotide primer extension (Ms-SNuPE)."

sparser
"Promoter methylation of p14 ARF , p15 IK4b and p16 INK4a was not detected in any tumor sample."

sparser
"This study examined the acceptance of testing for methylated p16 and the understanding of test results in smokers at risk for development of lung cancer."

sparser
"P14(ARF) methylation was present in 61 of 188 colorectal cancers (32%)."

sparser
"Some studies showed that primary colorectal cancer (CRC) tissues often overexpress the p16 protein, while others showed the high incidence of p16 methylation."

sparser
"The positivity rate of p16 gene promoter methylation was 69.4% (25/36) in malignant pleural effusion and 13.3% (4/30) in benign pleural effusion specimens, showing a significant difference between them (χ² = 20.915, P < 0.01)."

sparser
"Moreover, frequent methylation of p14 (87.5%), hMLH1 (79.2%), DAPK (54.2%), APC (45.8%), and E-cadherin (40.9%) were detected in samples from China (Figure xref )."

sparser
"The pooled hazard ratios (HRs) with their 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were applied to estimate the prognostic effect of GSTP1 , p16 , ESR1, and PITX2 promoter methylation in breast cancer for multivariate regression analysis."

sparser
"In addition, the prognostic role of concurrent methylation in NEUROG1 and CDKN2A (p16) was influenced by sex."

sparser
"Here, we observed that promoter methylation of CDKN2A was significantly increased in E7- transfected HEK293 compared with control."

sparser
"Taken together, the evidence suggests that P16 DNA methylation primarily accounts for the inactivation of P16 transcription."

sparser
"In this study, subjects without p16 methylation that received chemotherapy had a better survival than those that did not, whereas for subjects with p16 methylation, there was no significant difference according to treatment status."

sparser
"In accordance with our results, they also did not find direct relation between the methylation status of the two promoters, but established strong correlation between promoter methylation of p16 INK4a[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"In total 95 lesion tissues of EPC and ESCC, p16 methylation was found in 53 (55.79%) cases, and 41 of 53 (77.36%) cases were demonstrated deletion of the p16 protein immunohistochemically."

sparser
"Association between p16 promoter methylation and tumor stage of HCC."

sparser
"On the other hand, no significant decrease in survival was observed for c-Myc amplification, p14 methylation, or p16 methylation ( >0.05, data not shown)."

sparser
"The test group showed a similar concordance for p16 methylation detection."

sparser
"It was found that 12/40 (30%) of hepatocellular carcinoma showed promoter region methylation in P16 gene whereas none (0/3) of the normal tissues was methylated in the promoter region in P16 gene."

sparser
"Further, the methylation of E-cadherin , p15 , and p16 gene in Caco2, HepG2, and HCT116 cell lines were detected by the corresponding probes, constructed with three domains."

sparser
"We detected 9p21 LOH, p16INK4a methylation and p16INK4a mutations in Barrett's adenocarcinomas in 5 of 15 (33%), 8 of 15 (53%) and 1 of 15 (7%) patients, respectively."

sparser
"It has been shown that engineeredp16 Ink4a promoter methylation is enough to cause early abnormal cell proliferation and tumor onset [ xref ]."

sparser
"Most of the chromate lung cancers with p16 methylation (85.7%) showed repression of the p16 protein."

sparser
"Cases in which there was methylation of the p16(INK4a) gene had a higher smoking index in the peripheral type (P = 0.007)."

sparser
"The correlation of the promoter methylation of the p16 gene and the expression and localization of p16 protein in Ca-ex-PA need to be further clarified."

sparser
"Besides, CDKN2A promoter methylation is a potential predictive factor for poor prognosis in ovarian cancer [ xref ]."

sparser
"A methylated p16 gene was detected in all intestinal adenoma tissue samples from the DMH-treated group."

sparser
"Similarly, aberrant methylation of the p16 and/or O 6 -methyl-guanine-DNA methyltransferase promoter was observed in DNA from sputum in 100% of patients with squamous cell lung carcinoma up to 3 years before clinical diagnosis ( xref )."

sparser
"Epigenetic abnormalities may serve as a marker of a “field defect”, such as MGMT, p16 and RASSF1A promoter region methylation in normal-appearing mucosa of colorectal cancer patients [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"This study aimed to investigate whether P16 methylation could be used to predict paclitaxel chemosensitivity of NSCLC."

sparser
"Subsequently, we examined whether aberrant methylation could be detected in corresponding serum DNA, and found that 13 of 44 (30%) patients with p16 promoter methylation in tumor DNA demonstrated ab[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"No correlation of p14 methylation was found in the tissue (cancer vs adjacent tissues)[ xref , xref ]and (cancer vs benign tissues).[ xref , xref ]The current results indicated no relationship between p14 methylation and PCa in tissue samples, which were consistent with an individual study."

sparser
"An association between p16 methylation, expression, and HR-HPV infection suggested the compliance of HPV infection and aberration of p16 gene have a synergic effect on initiation and progression of cervical carcinoma."

sparser
"Recently, a study showed that whole blood p16 methylation may serve as an important prognostic indicator of gastric adenocarcinoma [ xref ]."

sparser
"Here, we performed this study to evaluate the prognostic significance of GSTP1 , p16 , ESR1, and PITX2 promoter methylation in breast cancer."

sparser
"In the control diet group p16 promoter methylation was positively correlated with p16 gene expression ( P = 0.015), while in the WSD group this correlation neared significance ( P = 0.057) ( xref )."

sparser
"In addition to the relationship between the restricted p53 overexpression pattern and the MSI-H phenotype [ xref ], we found that p14 ARF promoter methylation was increased in CRCs with restricted p53 overexpression, irrespective of MSI status (Figure  xref )."

sparser
"While for instance APC and CDH13 methylation was detected more frequently in lung adenocarcinomas compared to lung squamous cell carcinomas, p16 methylation was detected more frequently in lung squamous cell carcinomas than in lung adenocarcinomas [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"In the survival analysis for 53 patients, the disease free survival (DFS) of patients with preoperative p16 methylation was not different from that of patients without such methylation ( xref ; P=0.088)."

sparser
"In summary, we found an association of alcohol consumption and of drinking pattern with increased promoter methylation of E- cadherin and decreased promoter methylation of p16 genes in postmenopausal breast cancer."

sparser
"Using a quantitative method, the pyrosequencing assay, we analyzed CDKN2A methylation in 51 cases of BL and identified CDKN2A gene methylation in 37 of 51 (72%) BL cases."

sparser
"However, the feasibility of using P16 methylation to predict malignant progression of OED has not yet been validated in a multicenter study."

sparser
"Whereas 16 INK4A promotor methylation was found in 13% of non-tumorous thyroid tissues only, 33% of the benign follicular adenomas had already been methylated."

sparser
"Our results show that the abnormal methylation of CDKN2A is significantly higher in cervical cancer than in control tissues (including both normal individual tissues and benign tissues), as well as in precancerous lesions (including CIN1–CIN3), and that the frequency of CDKN2A methylation is higher in CINs than in control tissues."

sparser
"Nine (24%) had methylation of the promoter region of the CDKN2A gene."

sparser
"Hence, methylation of p14 might obviate the need for p53 mutation in tumorigenesis."

sparser
"Further, we removed one study or two studies to reevaluate whether the potential publication bias for the methylated P16 and RASSF1A genes was reduced."

sparser
"Accordingly, based on the results of the present study and with reference to the literature on the role of p16 methylation in malignancies, ameloblastoma on the molecular level shows fewer gene altera[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Examination of the primary myeloma samples showed that eight of 16 (50%) contained a methylated p16 gene."

sparser
"Moreover, the level of CDKN2A methylation was also remarkably higher in precancerous lesions than in healthy controls."

sparser
"Compared to controls, total energy intake was greater for breast cancer cases with or without promoter methylation of E - cadherin or RAR-β2 gene; while intake of energy was lower for cases with promoter methylation of p16 gene than unmethylated cases."

sparser
"The transcriptional inactivation of p16 gene associated with p16 methylation in blood might start from the benign liver disease, and was increased dramatically between benign liver diseases and HCC process, and eventually they synchronously impacted HCC occurrence."

sparser
"It was remarkable that all 10 cases with methylation and 3 cases with mutations studied were negative for p16 protein, suggesting that methylation and mutation of the p16 gene might account for th[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Concurrent methylation in NEUROG1 and CDKN2A is associated with poor survival in CRC treated with adjuvant FOLFOX."

sparser
"Animal and epidemiological studies implicate EDCs as a significant concern to public health.( xref ) EDCs can interfere with the endocrine system, resulting in adverse health outcomes.( xref ) Many animal studies have linked EDCs such as diethylstilbestrol (DES), polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) and DDT exposure to epigenetic modifications including DNA methylation changes, resulting in alteration in gene expression and chromosomal stability.( xref – xref ) In particular, the mouse model had clearly established the ability of environmental factors to influence epigenetics thus promoting phenotypic changes later in development.( xref , xref ) Compared with controls, young rats exposed to DDT had lower methylation overall.( xref ) Rats treated in utero and postnatally with organochlorine pesticides and PCBs also showed decreased methylation in the tumor suppressor gene p16 (INK4a) compared to controls.( xref ) An in vitro study of rat ovarian cells observed that o , p’ -DDT can suppress the expression of selected genes (such as cytochrome P450 side chain cleavage enzyme (P450scc), progesterone receptor (PR), and epidermal growth factor epiregulin (EREG)) in very low doses through an estrogen receptor-independent pathway.( xref )"

sparser
"No association was observed between the intake of vitamin B2, B6, and B12 and the promoter methylation of E-cadherin , p16 INK4a , and retinoic acid receptor beta 2 ( RARβ2 ) genes in breast tumor tissues [ xref ]."

sparser
"BCL2 , CDKN2A and NID2 promoter methylation have also been proposed as epigenetic biomarkers for bladder cancer ( xref )."

sparser
"Our data suggest that p14(ARF) methylation occurs independently of p16(INK4a) alterations in liver cell adenomas."

sparser
"The frequency of CDKN2A, CDH1 and MGMT promoter methylation in the same groups was determined by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP)."

sparser
"Bisulfate sequencing indicated that the p16(Ink4a) gene was methylated in the tumorigenic cells."

sparser
"Aberrant methylation of the p15(INK4B) gene was detected in 15 of 47 patients (32%), whereas only four patients demonstrated methylation of the p16(INK4A) gene (8%)."

sparser
"The relationship between loss of heterozygosity, at 9p and p16 methylation in bronchial epithelium and the prevalence for methylation of these four genes in sputum from cancer-free, current and former smokers were also determined."

sparser
"However, the incidences of p14(ARF) and p16(INK) (4a) methylation in cardia adenocarcinoma were significantly higher than in distal samples (p14(ARF) : 61.5% vs 43.6%; p16(INK) (4a) : 73.1% vs 51.3%, P < 0.05)."

sparser
"Similarly, a study by Hoque et al. confirmed an increase in CDKN2A , ARF , MGMT , and GSTP1 methylation status to correlate with tumour progression whilst in healthy control samples, methylation was undetectable when using the qMSP technique [ xref ]."

sparser
"Over 70% of lung cancer cell lines exhibit promoter methylation of the tumor suppressor p16, an epigenetic modification that reduces its expression."

sparser
"In addition, the prognostic role of concurrent methylation in NEUROG1 and CDKN2A was different among sex; it was a negative prognostic factor in men but not in women (interaction p value of 0.026 for OS and 0.011 for DFS)."

sparser
"Further, when different combinations of genes were evaluated, OSCC harboring both p16 and DCC methylation emerged to be more significantly associated with nodal involvement than p16 alone ( p = 0.005, OR = 19.2, 95% C.I. =2.4–152.8; xref )."

sparser
"This might be explained by the fact that p16 INK4A is aberrantly methylated in about 40% of sporadic CRC and is significantly correlated with loss of tumor suppressor function [ xref ]."

sparser
"In conclusion, detection of the aberrant methylation of DAPK and p16 genes in blood DNA from non-invasive bladder cancer patients might offer an effective means for the earlier auxiliary diagnosis of the malignancy."

sparser
"The degree of background anthracosis (the effect of extrinsic carcinogenic factors) (mean absorbance value, A = 0.715) of the cases with p16-gene methylation was significantly higher than that without methylation (mean A value = 0.298)."

sparser
"Methylation of the p14 gene was less frequent in lung cancer (4/52, 8%)."

sparser
"Two normal human bone marrow (NBM) samples analyzed for p15 and p16 cytosine methylation were both predominantly unmethylated ( Fig. 3 )."

sparser
"This study explored the relationship between promoter methylation and inactivation of the DAPK1, FHIT, MGMT, and CDKN2A genes in cervical cancer."

sparser
"In this study, the p16 methylation observed was low (17.6%) compared to observations in previous studies."

sparser
"E-cadherin and p16INK4a are commonly methylated in NSCLC and the methylation pattern of p16INK4a and E-cadherin genes may have prognostic value for the outcome of NSCLC patients."

sparser
"Moreover, the high prevalence of p16INK4a methylation found in pancreatic carcinoma tissues is confirmed by these data."

sparser
"However, the ORs of p16 methylation for genotype CT and TT were 1.98 (95% CI 1.01–3.89) and 17.79 (95% CI 2.26–140.22) in EPL, 4.86 (95% CI 2.48–9.50) and 20.40 (95% CI 2.53–164.81) in ESCC, respectively."

sparser
"Molecular predictive biomarkers have been studied to stratify HCC patients for the most effective treatment strategies [ xref , xref ] and analysis of INK4A methylation may be critical in the development of agents targeting DNA methylation or p16-CDK4/6-RB pathway."

sparser
"12 Extensive analysis of p16 INK4A promoter methylation in human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma has also shown a high level of inactivation that exactly correlates with the absence of p16 INK[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"Due to the catalytic nature of the process, LOD of 7.3 × 10 −17 M was reached; moreover, biosensor could recognize as low as 0.01% methylation level, and was applied to analyze DNA methylation of p16 gene in various cancer cell lines, such as hepatoma cell line (Hep G2), breast cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7), cervical carcinoma cell line (HeLa), human lung adenocarcinoma cell line (A549), and normal human epithelial mammary cell line (MCF-10A)."
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sparser
"Transwell assays revealed that the migration ability of GES-1 and BGC823 cells was significantly increased following P16 -specific DNA methylation (Fig.  xref and xref )."

sparser
"Only one case had p16 methylation at initial presentation, whereas 6 patients (P = 0.0001) had methylation at relapse."

sparser
"DNA methylation of CDKN2A (p16) has been extensively studied in CCA, with reported sensitivities and specificities between 14–83% and 64–100%, respectively, but only non-PSC controls have been included in these studies ( xref )."

sparser
"Although the average age of the P16 methylation-positive patients was higher than that of P16 methylation-negative patients, multivariate analysis revealed that P16 methylation is still significantly associated with malignant transformation of OEDs after adjusting for age."

sparser
"Our main findings are as follows: (a) methylation was completely absent in control tissues; (b) the frequencies of methylation for all of the genes except hMLH1 were >20% in cervical cancers; (c) aberrant methylation commenced early during multistage pathogenesis and methylation of at least one gene was noted in 30% of the nondysplasia/low-grade CIN group; (d) an increasing trend for methylation was seen with increasing pathological change; (e) methylation of RARbeta and GSTP1 were early events, p16 and MGMT methylation were intermediate events, and FHIT methylation was a late, tumor-associated event; and (f) methylation occurred independently of other risk factors including papillomavirus infection, smoking history, or hormone use."

sparser
"Long-term radon exposure has been associated with increased CDKN2A and MGMT promoter methylation among Chinese miners [ xref ]."

sparser
"This study was designed to determine the prevalence of p16, MGMT, RARbeta2, CLDN3, CRBP and MT1G gene methylation in patients with ESCC to evaluate the variation of gene methylation across a spectrum of preneoplastic lesions, and assess the feasibility of using gene methylation in a primary screening test utilizing frozen esophageal cells collected by balloon cytology samplers."

sparser
"We observed that the frequency of CDKN2A methylation was significantly higher in pancreatic cancer patients than in normal healthy controls."

sparser
"Morever, it will be of future interest to determine the potential mechanisms howp15 INK4b ,p16 INK4a methylations were regulated by ANRIL and whether the causality, if any, betweenp15 INK4b ,p16 INK4a methylation and ANRIL expression is bidirectional."

sparser
"A recent study examined INK4A methylation via pyrosequencing, using circulating cell-free DNA from the blood samples of 66 HCC patients and 43 controls with chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis ( xref ) ( xref )."

sparser
"To determine whether p16 promoter methylation is associated with epithelial ovarian cancer and can thus be used as a diagnostic marker, we performed a meta-analysis of published studies."

sparser
"The prognostic impact of p16(INK4a) methylation in DLBCL remains unclear; however, it has been suggested to correlate with inferior outcome."

sparser
"Efforts were made to investigate methylation patterns of DNA in the plasma of cancer patients vs. controls such as p16 promoter methylation in ESCC [ xref ]."

sparser
"The amplification of EGFR was associated with amplifications in MDM2 and CDK4 and a higher percentage of cases with promoter methylation of INK4a."

sparser
"We tried to explore the effect of methylation of p16 and shp1 genes in plasma in the diagnosis of B-NHL patients."

sparser
"Promoter methylation of p16(INK4a) and p14(ARF) was detected in 36% and 42% in cSCC, respectively."

sparser
"These findings showed methylation of the p16 gene was a frequent event inMM patients at diagnosis, and was associated with an increased proliferative rate of plasma cells and a poor prognosis, indicating an important role for p16 gene in the cell cycle regulation of multiple myeloma tumour cells, and thus in the clinical outcome of the disease."

sparser
"Moreover, these molecular aberrations were also found in carcinomas in situ and SCC, and at a more advanced level. xref Molecular changes involving LOH of chromosomal regions 3p ( DDUT and FHIT genes), 9p ( CDKN2A ), genomic instability (increased microsatellite repeats) and p16 methylation have all shown to commence in histologically normal or slightly abnormal tissue in SCC patients and in the sequence of pathogenesis of the disease. xref As mentioned before, KRAS is the most mutated oncogene in lung adenocarcinomas. xref Almost 15 years ago, Nelson et al . demonstrated that KRAS mutations are found in histologically normal lung tissue adjacent to lung tumours. xref As will be discussed later, mutations in EGFR were also found in adjacent to tumour histologically normal epithelium. xref , xref Similar epigenetic and gene methylation patterns between tumours and adjacent histologically normal epithelia were described."

sparser
"The methylation of CDKN2A and CHFR was found to be higher in the ESCC tissue and paracarcinoma tissue than in the adjacent benign tissue."

sparser
"In the 40 MAGE positive cases of lung cancer and benign lung diseases, positive rates for MAGE A3 unmethylation and p16 methylation were 67.5 and 75.0%, respectively."

sparser
"According to sample type (tissue, serum, or urine), ethnicity (Caucasian or Asian), and testing method [methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP) and non-MSP], subgroup analyses were performed forp16 INK4A promoter methylation with significant heterogeneity (Table xref )."

sparser
"While there was no relationship between the other genes and survival, p16(INK4a) methylation was significantly related to unfavourable prognosis in lung adenocarcinomas."

sparser
"Hyper-methylation of the ARF promoter occurs independently of the INK4a promoter methylation, suggesting specific alteration of the ARF expression in these cancers."

sparser
"t(14;18), BCL2 over-expression, and CDKN2A methylation or deletion have been shown to predict poor outcomes [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"When HCC was compared to liver cirrhosis, the results showed that p16 promoter methylation was correlated with HCC in tissue and blood samples (tissue: OR = 4.87, 95% CI = 3.49–6.78, P  < ."

sparser
"The meta-analysis results suggested that p16 methylation status could be used as a stratified factor for NSCLC patient survival though with slight significant associations."

sparser
"Aberrant p16 methylation may be a valuable diagnostic tool as a tumor marker for the early identification of individuals in high risk ESCC families."

sparser
"P16 gene specific DNA methylation."

sparser
"The methylation of p16INK4a and MGMT, which can be detected in the sputum of most LUSC patients, could be used to predict the risk of lung cancer in smokers [ xref ]."
| PMC

sparser
"AI and p16(ink4a) gene aberrant methylation may provide a potential universal biomarker for small-sized adenocarcinoma."

sparser
"However, p16 methylation was detected in 15 of 37 (40.5%) PTCs with metastases and in only five of 37 (13.5%) PTCs without metastases ( p  = 0.009), which indicates that hypermethylation of the p16 pr[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

sparser
"There was no marked relationship between the methylation of p16 gene and the patients' age, gender, size of cancer, histological subtypes and occurrence of recurrent disease (p > 0.05)."

sparser
"Although the role of P16 methylation in ESCC development has been studied intensively, only one previous study examined P16 methylation in cytology specimens and reported that P16 methylation was observed in 9% subjects with no dysplasia, 8% with LGIN, 14% with HGIN. xref In contrast, our study showed a considerably higher sensitivity for identifying ESCdys and an increasing trend for P16 methylation frequency with pathological progression, which is consistent with other studies using biopsy specimen. xref , xref Differences in sampling devices or methylation detection technology may account for the better results in our study."

sparser
"Especially due to the high relevancy of CDKN2A methylation in gastrinomas and pancreatic NENs the use of decitabine and other 5-azacytidine analogs deserves further assessment."

sparser
"We analyzed other clinical effects of p16 , RASSF1A , DAPK , and p15 promoter methylation with the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with GC in the blood."

sparser
"Results showed that the average proportion of methylated p16 in GCs was significantly higher than that in their adjacent samples (12.90 vs 0.63%; t-test P=0.005)."

sparser
"In our study, we investigated promoter methylation of CDKN2A using a novel sensitive method, MethyLight assay, in addition to the standard method of MSP, and p16 expression to identify and differentiate HCC from non-HCC liver tumors in a series of patients presenting with a liver mass."

sparser
"No relationship was found between p14 methylation and GS among 5 studies ( P  = ."

sparser
"Our results that p16 INK4a and CDH13 methylation were frequently observed in invasive tumors are consistent with the fact that these factors are predictors of a poor prognosis in patients with lun[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Aberrant methylation of p16 was not detected in children with either MDS or JMML."

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"DNA methylation and expression of p16(INK4A) gene in pulmonary adenocarcinoma and anthracosis in background lung."

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"In the plasma of total 105 samples, 2 of 23 high grade intraepithelial neoplasia (HGIN) and 12 of 37 ESCC were detected p16 methylation, and 2 of 23 HGIN and 14 of 37 ESCC were detected FHIT methylation."

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"Notably, palbociclib treatment also selectively inhibited the proliferation of the P16- methylated subpopulation of P16-Dnmt cells, further indicating that P16 methylation can increase the sensitivity of cells to this CDK4/6 inhibitor."

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"P16 methylation and p16 immunoexpressions increased in CIN and invasive SCCs than nonneoplastic tissue."

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"In addition, xref reported that p16 INK4a methylation was a risk factor predicting shorter survival after surgery."

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"To further evaluate the role of DNA methylation changes in fibrosis-associated mouse liver carcinogenesis, promoter methylation and expression of Cdkn2a , Mgmt , Socs1 , Cdh1 , and Riz1 in non-tumor liver tissue were examined. xref shows that these tumor suppressor genes were methylated in the non-tumorous liver samples in DEN+CCl 4 -treated mice, while they were largely unmethylated in the livers of control mice."

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"For instance, one may expect that the hypermethylation will result in the repression of a gene, however, some opposite findings have been reported, such as the coexistence of overexpression and DNA methylation of the p16INK4a gene (Kim and Sharpless, xref )."

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"Comparisons among groups demonstrating methylation of both p14 ARF and p16 INK4a with those in which both were unmethylated are shown in Table  xref ."

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"The alternate or simultaneous presence of TP53 mutation and p14(ARF) methylation emerged as a univariate predictor of a shorter progression-free survival (P = 0.0456) but was not statistically significant when age and extent of surgery were included in the analysis."

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"Still, we observed location-dependent DNA methylation differences in cancer-related genes, such as low frequencies of RARB (7/63) and CDKN2A promoter methylation (6/63) in mucosal melanomas, or a high frequency of APC promoter methylation in conjunctival melanomas (6/9)."

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"Similarly, black raspberry anthocyanins when administered locally as a black raspberry rectal suppository significantly decreased cellular proliferation, DNA methylation methyl transferase 1 protein expression, and p16 promoter methylation in patients with familial adenomatous rectal polyps after a nine month intervention."

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"Significant correlations were observed between AFB(1)-Alb adducts and p53 mutations and p16 methylation."

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"This idea was tested by examining the relationship between p16 promoter methylation, DNA damage, and cancer risk."

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"The results of our study strongly suggest that CDKN2A methylation is correlated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer."

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"In the present investigation, we have studied the role of p16 promoter methylation in 69 histopathologically confirmed ESCC tissues and compared it with corresponding normal adjacent tissues for DNA methylation in the CpG island in the p16 promoter region by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP) and p16 protein expression by immunoblotting."

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"Specifically, methylation of p16 was a frequent event in the cervical carcinoma samples, and these figures were statistically significant compared with the normal and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia I cases (P = 0.015 and P = 0.021, respectively)."

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"The strength of the association between p16 methylation and prostate cancer risk was assessed by combined odds ratio (OR) and 95 % confidence interval (CI)."

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"P16 promoter methylation was significantly different in AH (7.7%) compared to EC (38%)."

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"P16 was methylated in 24 of 40 (62%) tissues and 12 of 39 (32%) plasma DNAs."

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"These results showed that CRC tissues displayed variable methylation density, which may be characteristics of p16 gene methylation in vivo."

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"The results indicated that a statistically significant increase in p16 promoter methylation occurred in workers with the highest plutonium exposure dose, and that the frequency of p16 methylation increased with increasing exposure at three different plutonium doses."

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"Methylation of E-cadherin , hMLH1 , and p16 was not detected in nonneoplastic cells of any organs obtained from individuals who were 22 years and younger (0 of 6)."

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"Additionally, drinking intensity was associated with decreased prevalence of p16 promoter methylation: 0.48 (95% CI 0.28–0.84) for lifetime low alcohol drinking intensity and 0.43 (95% CI 0.23–0.80) for high alcohol drinking intensity, again after control for total intake."

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"There are several possible explanations for our findings: firstly, given that we have also observed inverse associations between CDKN2A methylation and offspring adiposity( xref ), the relationships with bone might have been mediated through fat or lean mass."

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"Of note, methylation of p16, DCC, EDNRB and KIF1A varies across the amount of tobacco used ( xref )."

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"We have analyzed methylation in the promoter region of the p16 and MGMT genes in lung tumors obtained from lung cancer patients from the Western Penn­sylvania region."

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"We analyzed 90 samples of surgically resected colorectal cancer tissues for APC and CDKN2A promoter methylation using methylation sensitive-high resolution melting (MS-HRM) and pyrosequencing."

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"A recent study showed that 33.3% of PLS contained TP53 mutations and that 50% (3/6) had p14 ARF gene methylation [9] ."

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"Three studies reported thatp16 INK4A methylation was not significantly correlated with the prognosis of RCC."

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"The subgroup analysis by ethnicity regarding the methylation of P16 , RASSF1A , APC , and RARβ genes showed that the methylation of the P16 and RARβ genes was associated with the occurrence of NSCLC in the Asian and Caucasian populations with, suggesting that the methylation of P16 and RARβ genes can be used as biomarkers for NSCLC detection in both ethnical groups."