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Complete print of the doctoral thesis approved by the department Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan of the Technical University Munich for obtaining the academic degree doctor of natural sciences (doctor rerum naturalium). This work describes the functional analysis of three selected epigenetic regulated genes as biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and response prediction of colorectal cancer.

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Marc Tänzer studied Human Biology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 2001 to 2005, starting his PhD studies at the Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München in 2007, finishing in 2012 with this thesis, using methylated genes as diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic biomarkers in tissue from colorectal cancer patients.

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