Instability of short tandem repeats (microsatellites) in human cancers

Nature Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 152-156

  Wooster, R ^a   Cleton Jansen, A M ^b   Collins, N ^a   Mangion, J ^a   Cornelis, R S ^b   Cooper, C S ^a   Gusterson, B A ^a   Ponder, B A J ^c   von Deimling, A ^d   Wiestler, O D ^d   Cornelisse, C J ^b   Devilee, P ^b   Stratton, M R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA, SATELLITE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEOPLASMS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SARCOMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0028362315     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0294-152     Document Type: Article

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