3' End structure and rearrangements of EGFR in glioblastomas

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 248-254

  Eley, Greg ^a   Frederick, Lori ^a   Wang, Xiao Yang ^a   Smith, David I ^a   James, C David ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER TISSUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ONCOGENE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, NEOPLASM; EXONS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, ERBB-1; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031708856     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199811)23:3<248::AID-GCC7>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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