Gain of chromosome 3 and loss of 13q are frequent alterations in pituitary adenomas

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 97-103

  Fan, Xing ^a   Paetau, Anders ^b   Aalto, Yan ^b   Välimäki, Matti ^b   Sane, Timo ^b   Poranen, Antti ^b   Castresana, Javier S ^a   Knuutila, Sakari ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 20Q; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GENE NUMBER; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035878534     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4608(01)00398-3     Document Type: Article

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