This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30700813, No. 30470977, No, 30080016), Fundamental Key Science Foundation of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 05JC14029), Public Scientific Sesearch Platform of Hospital of Grade A at the Tertiary Level of Shanghai (No. SHDC12007704) and Youth Science Foundation of Shanghai Health Bureau (No. 034Y03).Acknowledgments: We thank CapitalBio Corporation for performing microarray scanning and Jacqueline Ramirez, Keith Mitchilson for editorial comments.
Background As a model for both multistep and multipathway carcinogenesis, colorectal neoplastic progression provides paradigms for researching both oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes (TSGs). However, the mechanism...