Rare HRAS1 alleles are a risk factor for the development of brain tumors

Cancer

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2920-2926

  Vega, Ana ^a,c   Sobrido, María J ^b   Ruiz Ponte, Clara ^a   Barros, Francisco ^a   Carracedo, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL DE CONXO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Gliomas; HRAS1 minisatellite; Meningiomas; Microsatellite instability (MI); Minisatellite variant repeat polymerase chain reaction (MVR PCR); Schwannomas; Variable number of tandem repeats (VNTRs)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; ONCOGENE RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENOTYPE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; RISK FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035575984     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20011201)92:11<2920::AID-CNCR10110>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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