Multiple primary tumors as an indicator for p16(INK4a) germline mutations in pancreatic cancer patients?

Pancreas

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 369-375

  Gerdes, Berthold ^a   Bartsch, Detlef K ^a   Ramaswamy, Annette ^a   Kersting, Michael ^a   Wild, Anja ^a   Schuermann, Marcus ^a   Frey, Mercedes ^a   Rothmund, Matthias ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BRCA2; Germline mutation; Multiple primaries; P16; Pancreatic cancer; TP53

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA; PROTEIN P16;

ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METHYLATION; MUTATION RATE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADULT; AGED; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA METHYLATION; GENES, P16; GENES, P53; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033743886     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-200011000-00007     Document Type: Article

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