Understanding human cancer in a fly?

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1006-1010

  St John, Maie A R ^a,b   Xu, Tian ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030776158     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301619     Document Type: Article

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