Familial/bilateral and sporadic testicular germ cell tumors show frequent genetic changes at loci with suggestive linkage evidence

Neoplasia

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 196-203

  Skotheim, Rolf I ^a,b   Kraggerud, Sigrid M ^a   Fosså, Sophie D ^a   Stenwig, Anna E ^a   Gedde Dahl Jr , Tobias ^b   Danielsen, Håvard E ^a   Jakobsen, Kjetill S ^b   Lothe, Ragnhild A ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Allelic imbalance; Familial cancer; Loss of heterozygosity; Susceptibility gene; Testicular germ cell tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME XQ; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA;

EID: 0034891337     PISSN: 15228002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.neo.7900153     Document Type: Article

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