Haplotype analysis of the polymorphic human vascular endothelial growth factor gene promoter

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 812-816

  Stevens, Adam ^a   Soden, Joanne ^a   Brenchley, Paul E ^a   Ralph, Shirley ^a   Ray, David W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PHORBOL ESTER; VASCULOTROPIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAPLOTYPE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHERITANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ESTRADIOL; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0037442985     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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