Chromosomal aberrations in malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumorscorrelation with c-KIT gene mutation

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 24-30

  Debiec Rychter, Maria ^a   Lasota, Jerzy ^a   Sarlomo Rikala, Maarit ^b   Kordek, Radzislaw ^c   Miettinen, Markku ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NUMERICAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; STROMA CELL; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, MUSCLE TISSUE; PLOIDIES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

EID: 0035397627     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4608(01)00395-8     Document Type: Article

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