Renal cell cancer: Chromosome 3 translocations as risk factors

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 91, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1159-1160

  Van Kessel Geurts, Ad ^a   Wijnhoven, Hanncke ^b   Bodmer, Danielle ^b   Eleveld, Marc ^b   Kiemeney, Lambartus ^b   Mulders, Peter ^b   Weterman, Marian ^b   Ligtenberg, Marjolijn ^b   Smeets, Dominique ^b   Smits, Arie ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 0033532936     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/91.13.1159     Document Type: Article

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