High incidence of somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in human ovarian carcinomas

Cancer Research

Volumn 61, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 5998-6001

  Liu, Vincent W S ^a   Hui Shi, Hong ^a   Cheung, Annie N Y ^a   Man Chiu, Pui ^a   Leung, Tsin Wah ^a   Nagley, Phillip ^a   Wong Wong, Ling ^a   Ngan, Hextan Y S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OVARY CARCINOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC MUTATION;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 0035882029     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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