Human Pathology
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Expression of DNA methyltransferases in multistep hepatocarcinogenesis

,Accepted 30 September 2002.

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☆ Supported by the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology through the 21C Frontier Project, Functional Genomics of the Human Genome, grant FG-1-4-01 (to Y.K.P.).

☆☆ Address correspondence and reprint requests to Eunsil Yu, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, 388-1 Pungnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea.

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doi: 10.1053/hupa.2003.5

Human Pathology
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 11-17 , January 2003

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