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      Detection of LINE-1s hypomethylation in oral rinses of oral squamous cell carcinoma patients.

      Oral Oncology
      Adult, Aged, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, genetics, pathology, DNA Methylation, Female, Humans, Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements, Male, Middle Aged, Mouth Neoplasms, Polymerase Chain Reaction, methods, Young Adult

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          This study aimed to (i) investigate long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1) methylation levels of oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCCs), the major type of oral malignancies; and (ii) investigate whether the hypomethylation of LINE-1s can be detected in oral rinses of OSCC patients. The combined bisulfite restriction analysis polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of LINE-1s (COBRALINE-1) was used. We found that tissues from OSCC specimens had lower methylation levels of LINE-1s than cells collected from the oral rinses of normal volunteers. Interestingly, cells collected from oral rinses of OSCC patients also revealed hypomethylated LINE-1s at the same level as OSCC tissues. There was no difference in the level of hypomethylation due to stages, locations, histological grades, and history of betel chewing, smoking and/or alcohol consumption. In conclusion, OSCCs possessed global hypomethylation and this alteration could be detected from oral rinses of OSCC patients by a simple PCR technique, COBRALINE-1. Therefore, COBRALINE-1 of oral rinses may be applied for non-invasive detection of oral malignancies.

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