Accumulated clonal genetic alterations in familial and sporadic colorectal carcinomas with widespread instability in microsatellite sequences

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1063-1078

  Fujiwara, Takato ^a   Stolker, Joshua M ^a   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^a   Rashid, Asif ^a,b   Longo, Patti ^a   Eshleman, James R ^a,b   Booker, Susan ^b   Lynch, Henry T ^c   Jass, Jeremy R ^d   Green, Jane S ^e   Kim, Hoguen ^a   Jen, Jin ^b   Vogelstein, Bert ^b   Hamilton, Stanley R ^a,b,f  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CODON; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; ONCOGENE K RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0031710654     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65651-9     Document Type: Article

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