Alleles of APC modulate the frequency and classes of mutations that lead to colon polyps

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 385-388

  Spirio, Lisa N ^a,c   Samowitz, Wade ^b   Robertson, Jennifer ^a   Robertson, Margaret ^a   Burt, Randall W ^b   Leppert, Mark ^b   White, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME LOSS; COLON POLYP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; FEMALE; GENES, APC; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION;

EID: 0031772123     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/3865     Document Type: Article

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