Colorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the APC I1307K variant: Lone gunman or conspiracy

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-139

  Sieber, Oliver ^a   Lipton, Lara ^a,b,c   Heinimann, Karl ^d   Tomlinson, Ian ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Division of Medical Genetics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

APC; Ashkenazi; Colorectal tumours; I1307K

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; APC PROTEIN; THYMINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CODON; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ADENOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ALLELES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; GENES, APC; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; JEWS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037314617     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.1272     Document Type: Article

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