Genetic instabilities in human cancers

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6712, 1998, Pages 643-649

  Lengauer, Christoph ^a   Kinzler, Kenneth W ^a   Vogelstein, Bert ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032542364     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25292     Document Type: Review

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