Association of nonsyndromic Wilms tumor with premature centromere division (PCD)

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 215-216

  Mehes K ^a,b   Kajtar P ^a   Kosztolanyi G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cancer susceptibility; Chromosome instability; PCD; Premature centromere division; Wilms tumor

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MITOSIS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PREMATURE CENTROMERE DIVISION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036808710     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.10661     Document Type: Article

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