Absence of detectable alterations in the putative tumor suppressor gene BTRC in cerebellar medulloblastomas and cutaneous basal cell carcinomas

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 287-290

  Wolter, Marietta ^a   Scharwächter, Christian ^a   Reifenberger, Julia ^a   Koch, Arend ^b   Pietsch, Torsten ^b   Reifenberger, Guido ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; BTRC; Medulloblastoma; Mutation; Tumor suppressor gene

Indexed keywords

BETA TRANSDUCIN REPEAT CONTAINING PROTEIN; DNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BTRC; PROTEIN SLIMB; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CARCINOGENESIS; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHROMOSOME 10Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-TRANSDUCIN REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEINS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; DNA; HUMANS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0142062499     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-003-0745-7     Document Type: Article

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