To examine the promoter methylation status of the 22 cancer genes and their contribution to disease progression in 6 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cell lines. Design: A panel of 41 gene probes, designed to interrogate 35 unique genes with known associations to cancer including HNSCC, was interrogated for alterations in gene copy number and aberrant methylation status (22 genes) using the methylation-specific multiplex ligationdependent probe amplification assay.
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