Founding mutations and Alu-mediated recombination in hereditary colon cancer

Nature Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 1203-1206

  Nyström Lahti, Minna ^a   Kristo, Paula ^a   Nicolaides, Nicholas C ^b   Chang, Sheng Yung ^c   Aaltonen, Lauri A ^a   Moisio, Anu Liisa ^a   Järvinen, Heikki J ^d   Mecklin, Jukka Pekka ^e   Kinzler, Kenneth W ^b   Vogelstein, Bert ^b,f   De La Chapelle, Albert ^a   Peltomäki, Päivi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e Central Hospital   (Finland)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; FINLAND; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EXONS; FINLAND; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMAN; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028845693     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1195-1203     Document Type: Article

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