Sporadic medulloblastomas contain PTCH mutations

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 842-845

  Raffel, Corey ^a   Jenkins, Robert B ^a   Frederick, Lori ^a   Hebrink, Deanne ^a   Alderete, Benjamin ^a   Fults, Daniel W ^b   David James, C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0031036694     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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