Identification of mutations in the Ki-ras gene in human retinoblastoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2313-2317

  Bautista, Dolores ^a   Emanuel, Janet Rettig ^a   Granville, Courtney ^a   Howard, Rufus ^a   Costa, Jose ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

eye neoplasms; human; mutation; ras genes; retinoblastoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; EXON; EYE TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; ONCOGENE RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; EXONS; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RETINOBLASTOMA;

EID: 0029797680     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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