Mutations of the β- and γ-catenin genes are uncommon in human lung, breast, kidney, cervical and ovarian carcinomas

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 64-68

  Ueda, M ^a   Gemmill, R M ^b   West, J ^b   Winn, R ^b   Sugita, M ^b   Tanaka, N ^c   Ueki, M ^a   Drabkin, H A ^b  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

catenin; catenin; Gene mutation; Human carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; PLAKOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MISSENSE MUTATION; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

BETA CATENIN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DESMOPLAKINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; GAMMA CATENIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035816261     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.2001.1863     Document Type: Article

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