The BAX gene maps to the glioma candidate region at 19q13.3, but is not altered in human gliomas

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 136-140

  Chou, Dean ^a   Miyashita, Toshiyuki ^b   Mohrenweiser, Harvey W ^c   Ueki, Keisuke ^a   Kastury, Kumar ^d   Druck, Teresa ^d   Von Deimling, Andreas ^e   Huebner, Kay ^d   Reed, John C ^b   Louis, David N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 19Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; ETIOLOGY; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MAPPING; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRID CELL; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RAT; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029902618     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(95)00341-X     Document Type: Article

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