Familial Wilms' tumor associated with a WT1 zinc finger mutation

Genomics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 451-453

  Kaplinsky, Chaim ^a   Ghahremani, Majid ^b   Frishberg, Yaacov ^c   Rechavi, Gideon ^a   Pelletier, Jerry ^b,d  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GENE PRODUCT; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 11P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0030589513     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0655     Document Type: Article

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