Current applications of genetic technology in predisposition testing and microsatellite instability assays

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 21 SUPPL., 2000, Pages

  Frazier, M L ^a   Su, L K ^a   Amos, C I ^a   Lynch, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; FAMILIAL CANCER; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; PEUTZ-JEGHERS SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 0034329315     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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