Gonadoblastoma, mixed germ cell tumor, and Y chromosomal genotype: Molecular analysis in four patients

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-45

  Muroya, Koji ^a   Ishii, Tomohiro ^a   Nakahori, Yutaka ^b   Asakura, Yumi ^c   Tachibana, Katsuhiko ^c   Masuno, Mitsuo ^c   Imaizumi, Kiyoshi ^c   Tanaka, Yukichi ^c   Kawada, Yasusada ^d   Yukizane, Shigenori ^e   Ogata, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c KANAGAWA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^e KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONADECTOMY; GONADOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADOLESCENT; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; GERMINOMA; GONADOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032962351     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199905)25:1<40::AID-GCC6>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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