Length and loss of heterozygosity of an intron 1 polymorphic sequence of egfr is related to cytogenetic alterations and epithelial growth factor receptor expression

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 854-857

  Buerger, Horst ^a   Gebhardt, Frank ^b   Schmidt, Hartmut ^b   Beckmann, Alf ^b   Hutmacher, Kirsten ^b   Simon, Ronald ^a   Lelle, Ralph ^b   Boecker, Werner ^a   Brandt, Burkhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CYTOGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ALLELES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRONS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0034652578     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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