Meta-analysis of promoter methylation in eight tumor-suppressor genes and its association with the risk of thyroid cancer

Fatemeh Khatami; Bagher Larijani; Ramin Heshmat; Abbasali Keshtkar; Mahsa Mohammadamoli; Ladan Teimoori-Toolabi; Shirzad Nasiri; Seyed Mohammad Tavangar

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184892

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Meta-analysis of promoter methylation in eight tumor-suppressor genes and its association with the risk of thyroid cancer

Fatemeh Khatami,

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Chronic Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6311-1336

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Bagher Larijani,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Ramin Heshmat ,

Roles Data curation

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Chronic Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Abbasali Keshtkar ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Education Development, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Mahsa Mohammadamoli ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahsa Mohammadamoli, Ladan Teimoori-Toolabi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Ladan Teimoori-Toolabi ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahsa Mohammadamoli, Ladan Teimoori-Toolabi

Roles Software, Visualization

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Shirzad Nasiri,

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran
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Seyed Mohammad Tavangar

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Tavangar@ams.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Dr. Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4253-2385

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Meta-analysis of promoter methylation in eight tumor-suppressor genes and its association with the risk of thyroid cancer

Fatemeh Khatami,
Bagher Larijani,
Ramin Heshmat,
Abbasali Keshtkar,
Mahsa Mohammadamoli,
Ladan Teimoori-Toolabi,
Shirzad Nasiri,
Seyed Mohammad Tavangar

Published: September 19, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184892

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