An Association between the Risk of Cancer and Mutations in the HRAS1 Minisatellite Locus

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 329, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 517-523

  Krontiris, Theodore G ^a   Devlin, B ^b   Karp, Daniel D ^a   Robert, Nicholas J ^a   Risch, Neil ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA PURIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTO ONCOGENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; ALLELES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA, SATELLITE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, RAS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0027214689     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199308193290801     Document Type: Article

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