Characterization of the GAGE genes that are expressed in various human cancers and in normal testis

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 3157-3165

  De Backer, Olivier ^a   Arden, Karen C ^b,c   Boretti, Mauro ^a   Vantomme, Valérie ^a   De Smet, Charles ^a   Czekay, Suzanne ^b   Viars, Carrie S ^b   De Plaen, Etienne ^a   Brasseur, Francis ^a   Chomez, Patrick ^a   Van Den Eynde, Benoît ^a   Boon, Thierry ^a   Van Der Bruggen, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; AZACITIDINE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TESTIS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033168930     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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