Homozygous deletions inactivate DCC, but not MADH4/DPC4/SMAD4, in a subset of pancreatic and biliary cancers

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 353-357

  Hilgers, Werner ^a,c   Song, Jason J ^a   Haye, Marianne ^b   Hruban, Ralph R ^a   Kern, Scott E ^a,d   Fearon, Eric R ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NETRIN; RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MUTATION; PANCREAS CANCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, DCC; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034051009     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(200004)27:4<353::AID-GCC3>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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