Role of gain of 12p in germ cell tumour development

APMIS

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 161-170

  Looijenga, Leendert H J ^a,e   Zafarana, Gaetano ^a   Grygalewicz, Beata ^b,c   Summersgill, Brenda ^d   Debiec Rychter, Maria ^b   Veltman, Joris ^f   Schoenmakers, Eric F P M ^f   Rodriguez, Sandrine ^d   Jafer, Osman ^d   Clark, Jeremy ^d   Van Kessel, Ad Geurts ^f   Shipley, Janet ^d   Van Gurp, Ruud J H L M ^a   Gillis, Ad J M ^a   Oosterhuis, J Wolter ^a   Von Eyben, Finn Edler ^f   Rajpert De Meyts, Ewa ^f   Ottesen, Anne Marie ^f   Lothe, Ragnhild ^f  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e JOSEPHINE NEFKENS INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^f NONE

Author keywords

12p; Anoikis; Apoptosis; Candidate gene(s); Germ cell tumours; Tumour progression

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ARM; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; ISOCHROMOSOME; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOCYTE; TERATOMA; TESTIS; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

EID: 0038222516     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0463.2003.11101201.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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