Amplification of a DEAD Box Gene (DDXI) with the MYCN Gene in Neuroblastomas as a Result of Cosegregation of Sequences Flanking the MYCN Locus

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 129-133

  Noguchi, Tohru ^a   Akiyama, Kiyotaka ^a   Yokoyama, Masahiro ^a   Kanda, Naotoshi ^b   Matsunaga, Tadashi ^c   Nishi, Yoshisuke ^a  

^a JAPAN TOBACCO INC   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; RNA HELICASE;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETINOBLASTOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, MYC; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEUROBLASTOMA; RNA HELICASES; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030068986     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2264(199602)15:2<129::aid-gcc8>3.0.co;2-5     Document Type: Article

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