Table 3.

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Abbreviations: aCRC, advanced colorectal cancer; AS-PCR, allele specific PCR; CIMP, CpG island methylator phenotype; CIMP-H, high-frequency CIMP; CRC, colorectal cancer; DS, direct sequencing; DHPLC, denaturing high-performance chromatography; FISH, fluorescent in situ hybridization; LOH, loss of heterozygosity; P, prospective; qRTPCR, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction; R, retrospective; REMS-PCR, restriction endonuclease-mediated specific PCR; RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism; SSCP, single-strand conformation polymorphism; TMA, tissue microarray.