Sporadic medulloblastomas contain oncogenic β-catenin mutations

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 896-899

  Zurawel, Russell H ^a   Chiappa, Sharon A ^a   Allen, Cory ^a   Raffel, Corey ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CASEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA CATENIN; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASES; HUMANS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MUTATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0032030894     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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