Lack of association of rare alleles in the HRAS variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) region with adult glioma

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 120-124

  Chen, Pengchin ^a   Wiencke, John K ^a   Conway, Kathleen ^b   Edmiston, Sharon N ^b   Miike, Rei ^a   Wrensch, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; ONCOGENE RAS; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; ALLELES; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, RAS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034173517     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2-2-120     Document Type: Article

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