Mutations in β-catenin are uncommon in colorectal cancer occurring in occasional replication error-positive tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 4478-4481

  Kitaeva, Maria N ^a   Grogan, Liam ^a,c   Williams, John P ^b   Dimond, Eileen ^a   Nakahara, Kenneth ^a   Hausner, Petr ^a,c   DeNobile, John W ^b   Soballe, Peter W ^b,d   Kirsch, Ilan R ^a  

^a Division of Clinical Sciences   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; THREONINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030813048     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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