Sequence variants of the estrogen receptor (ER) gene found in breast cancer patients with ER negative and progesterone receptor positive tumors

Cancer Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 179-184

  Iwase, Hirotaka ^a,b   Greenman, Jill M ^a   Barnes, Diana M ^a   Hodgson, Shirley ^a   Bobrow, Lynda ^a   Mathew, Christopher G ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Estrogen receptor gene; Polymorphic site; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC MUTATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0030606232     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(96)04406-0     Document Type: Article

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