Genetics of brain tumors

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 543-548

  Weiss, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; EPENDYMOMA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GRANULE CELL; HUMAN; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; HUMANS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS;

EID: 0033739733     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-200012000-00005     Document Type: Review

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