Differences in CTG triplet repeat expansions in an ovarian cancer and cyst from a patient with myotonic dystrophy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 622-624

  Kinoshita, Masanobu ^a   Igarashi, Akira ^b   Komori, Tetsuo ^c   Tamura, Hirokazu ^a   Hayashi, Masatoshi ^a   Kinoshita, Katsuyuki ^d   Deguchi, Takeo ^b   Hirose, Kazuhiko ^e  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BML   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN TAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

(CTG) n triplet repeats; myotonic dystrophy; ovarian cancer; ovarian cyst; somatic instability

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; OVARIAN CYSTS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030939838     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199705)20:5<622::AID-MUS16>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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