Genomic structure of the human Smad3 gene and its infrequent alterations in colorectal cancers

Cancer Letters

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 157-163

  Arai, Takehiro ^a   Akiyama, Yoshimitsu ^a   Okabe, Satoshi ^a   Ando, Masayuki ^a   Endo, Mitsuo ^a   Yuasa, Yasuhito ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Genomic structure; Loss of heterozygosity; Smad3; TGF

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032498328     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(97)00384-4     Document Type: Article

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