The significance of unstable chromosomes in colorectal cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 695-701

  Rajagopalan, Harith ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^b   Vogelstein, Bert ^a   Lengauer, Christoph ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENETIC REGULATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; GENETICS;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS;

EID: 0141576687     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1165     Document Type: Review

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