Monoalellic amplification of estrogen receptor-α expression breast cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2598-2601

  Schuur, Eric R ^a   Weigel, Ronald J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; RNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER GENETICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; ALLELE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034656420     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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