Low-penetrance retinoblastoma due to exons 24 and 25 deletions in the Rb1 gen

Chinese Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 370-374

  Du, Chin ^a   Jiang, Yuehua ^a   Gallie, Brenda L ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU GENERAL HOSPITAL OF GUANGZHOU MILITARY COMMAND   (China)

Author keywords

Deletion; Mutation; Penetrance; Rb1 gene; Retinoblastoma

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CLONING; DNA; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; TUMORS;

LOW-PENETRANCE RETINOBLASTOMA; WESTERN BLOTTING TECHNIQUE;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FLUORESCENCE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RB1 GENE; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EXONS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

EID: 0036797176     PISSN: 10039406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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