Chromosome abnormalities of eighty-one pediatric germ cell tumors: Sex- , age-, site-, and histopathology-related differences - A children's cancer group study

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 134-146

  Bussey, Kimberly J ^a,b   Lawce, Helen J ^b   Olson, Susan B ^b   Arthur, Diane C ^a,c   Kalousek, Dagmar K ^a,d   Krailo, Mark ^a,e   Giller, Roger ^a,f   Heifetz, Stephen ^a,g   Womer, Rick ^a,h   Magenis, R Ellen ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S ONCOLOGY GROUP   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; ISOCHROMOSOME; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; NEWBORN; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; TESTIS CANCER; TRISOMY 21; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PLOIDIES; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SEX FACTORS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032961983     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199906)25:2<134::AID-GCC9>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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