Païvi Peltomäki

ORCID: 0000-0001-8819-2980 · 5 papers in corpus · active 2004-2025

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  • article 1
  • letter 1

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  • endometriosis 2
2025
International journal of cancer ·doi:10.1002/ijc.70074

Lynch syndrome (LS) is a prevalent cause of hereditary gynecological cancers. DNA mismatch repair (MMR) defects are important players in LS tumorigenesis, but the developmental steps leading to malignancy are incompletely understood. We und…

2014
Epigenetics ·doi:10.4161/15592294.2014.983374

Diagnosis and treatment of epithelial ovarian cancer is challenging due to the poor understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease. Our aim was to investigate epigenetic mechanisms in ovarian tumorigenesis and, especially, whether tumors …

article 2011
Epigenomics
letter 2011
Epigenomics ·doi:10.2217/epi.11.96
2004
Journal of the National Cancer Institute ·doi:10.1093/jnci/djh034

Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), also known as Lynch syndrome, is a common autosomal dominant syndrome characterized by early age at onset, neoplastic lesions, and microsatellite instability (MSI). Because cancers with MSI…