Plasma DNA K-ras mutations in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 906, Issue , 2000, Pages 25-28

  Mulcahy, Hugh E ^a,b   Lyautey, Jacqueline ^a,b   Lederrey, Christine ^a,b   Chen, Xu Qi ^a,b   Lefort, François ^a,b   Vasioukhin, Valeri ^a,b   Anker, Philippe ^a,b   Alstead, Elspeth M ^a,b   Farthing, Michael J G ^a,b   Stroun, Maurice ^a,b  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONCOGENE K RAS;

EID: 0034112867     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06585.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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