Genetic instability and darwinian selection in tumours

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1999, Pages

  Cahill, Daniel P ^a   Kinzler, Kenneth W ^b   Vogelstein, Bert ^a   Lengauer, Christoph ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS;

DARWINIA;

EID: 0033388315     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-8924(99)01661-X     Document Type: Review

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