β-Catenin mutations are specific for colorectal carcinomas with microsatellite instability but occur in endometrial carcinomas irrespective of mutator pathway

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 3346-3351

  Mirabelli Primdahl, Laura ^a   Gryfe, Robert ^a,c   Kim, Hyeja ^a   Millar, Anna ^a   Luceri, Cristina ^a   Dale, Darlene ^b   Holowaty, Eric ^b,d   Bapat, Bharati ^a,c   Gallinger, Steven ^a,c   Redston, Mark ^a,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Ontario Cancer Registry   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER TISSUE; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CODON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, APC; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0033565255     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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