K-ras gene mutations in normal colorectal tissues from K-ras mutation- positive colorectal cancer patients

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2485-2492

  Zhu, Dan ^a   Keohavong, Phouthone ^a,c,d   Finkelstein, Sydney D ^b   Swalsky, Patricia ^b   Bakker, Anke ^b   Weissfeld, Joel ^c,d   Srivastava, Sudhir ^e   Whiteside, Theresa L ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONAL ANERGY; CODON; COLON MUCOSA; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; RECTUM;

EID: 0030920821     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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