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ArticleTumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine2014

Association of COX2 gene hypomethylation with intestinal type gastric cancer in samples of patients from northern Brazil.

Cynthia Farias Vieira de Melo, Carolina Oliveira Gigek, Juarez Nóbrega da Silva, Marilia de Arruda Cardoso Smith, Rubistenia Miranda de Araújo, Rommel Rodríguez Burbano, Eleonidas Moura Lima

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Article in Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Gastric cancer burden and regional disparities among Helicobacter pylori-positive patients in the Americas: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  4. Methylation status of TRAF2 is associated with the diagnosis and prognosis of gastric cancer.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2015
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Cynthia Farias Vieira de MeloGraduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Laboratory of Structural Molecular Biology and Oncogenetics-LBMEO, Department of Molecular Biology, Federal University of Paraíba UFPB, 58051-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.
Carolina Oliveira Gigek
Juarez Nóbrega da Silva
Marilia de Arruda Cardoso Smith
Rubistenia Miranda de Araújo
Rommel Rodríguez Burbano
Eleonidas Moura Lima
Universidade Federal da Paraíba · BRUniversidade Federal de São Paulo · BRUniversidade Federal do Pará · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To verify the methylation status of THBS1, GPX3, and COX2 genes and to evaluate their association with Helicobacter pylori in gastric adenocarcinomas. Methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme PCR assay was performed in 16 diffuse type gastric cancer samples, 23 intestinal type, and 15 normal stomach tissue. The presence of H. pylori was performed by amplification of the fragment of the 16S rRNA. Statistical analyses were performed using Fisher's exact test. The hypermethylation of GPX3, THBS1, and COX2 occurred in 18 (n = 7), 5 (n = 2), and 36 % (n = 14) of gastric cancer samples, respectively, whereas in normal samples, it was found in 13, 7, and 67 %. The presence of H. pylori was detected in 67 % of gastric cancer samples and 67 % in normal gastric samples. The methylation of THBS1 and GPX3 was not significantly different between the types of tumors, normal sample, the presence of H. pylori, or clinicopathological variables studied (P > 0.05). However, the methylation status of the gene COX2 is significantly different between normal tissue and intestinal type gastric cancer (P = 0.02). Therefore, our results suggest that the methylation status of the gene COX2 is associated with the intestinal type of gastric cancer.

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BrazilCpG IslandsCyclooxygenase 2DNA MethylationFemaleGenetic Association StudiesGlutathione PeroxidaseHelicobacter pyloriHumansIntestinal NeoplasmsMalePromoter Regions, GeneticRNA, Ribosomal, 16SStomach NeoplasmsCyclooxygenase 2Glutathione PeroxidaseGPX3 protein, humanPTGS2 protein, humanRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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