Increased chromosome 20 copy number detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in malignant melanoma

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 278-285

  Barks, James H ^a,b   Thompson, Floyd H ^b   Taetle, Raymond ^b   Yang, Jin Ming ^b   Stone, John F ^d   Wymer, Julie A ^b   Khavari, Ramin ^e   Guan, Xin Yuan ^c   Trent, Jeffrey M ^c   Pinkel, Dan ^e   Nelson, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d GENZYME GENETICS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 20Q; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KARYOTYPING; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MELANOMA; METAPHASE; PLOIDIES; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030836424     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199708)19:4<278::AID-GCC11>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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