Evaluation of microsatellite instability and immunohistochemistry for the prediction of germ-line MSH2 and MLH1 mutations in hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer families

Cancer Research

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3485-3492

  Wahlberg, Siobhan S ^a,c   Schmeits, James ^c   Thomas, George ^a,b   Loda, Massimo ^a,b   Garber, Judy ^a   Syngal, Sapna ^a,b   Kolodner, Richard D ^c   Fox, Edward ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER FAMILY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CARRIER PROTEINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

EID: 0037096801     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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