Susceptibility to testicular germ-cell tumours in a 129.MOLF-Chr 19 chromosome substitution strain

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 237-240

  Matin, Angabin ^a   Collin, Gayle B ^b   Asada, Yoshinobu ^c   Varnum, Don ^b   Nadeau, Joseph H ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 19; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GERMINOMA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032881408     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/13874     Document Type: Article

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