Lead articleDNA hypomethylation in breast cancer: An independent parameter of tumor progression?☆
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This work was supported by the Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer (ARC) and the Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer (Comité National et Comité de Paris). A. Almeida and J. Bernardino were fellows from the ARC.
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We are grateful to the pathologists from Institut Curie, particularly B. Zafrani and X. Sastre. We thank M.-F. Lavigne for manuscript preparation.
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