UV-B-type mutations and chromosomal imbalances indicate common pathways for the development of Merkel and skin squamous cell carcinomas

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 352-360

  Popp, Susanne ^a   Waltering, Stefan ^a,b   Herbst, Christel ^b   Moll, Ingrid ^c   Boukamp, Petra ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative genomic hybridization; FHIT; p53; Ras

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4P; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ONCOGENE H RAS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, P53; GENES, RAS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OXYGEN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0037140912     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.10321     Document Type: Article

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