Expression patterns of the human sarcoma-associated genes FUS and EWS and the genomic structure of FUS

Genomics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-8

  Åman, Pierre ^a   Panagopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Lassen, Carin ^a   Fioretos, Thoas ^a   Mencinger, Marina ^a   Toresson, Håkan ^a   Höglund, Mattias ^a   Forster, Allan ^b   Rabbitts, Terence H ^b   Ron, David ^c   Mandahl, Nils ^a   Mitelman, Felix ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Kaplan Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ONCOGENE; EWING SARCOMA; GENE MAPPING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; LIPOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0030272143     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0513     Document Type: Article

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