Cancer Genetics Through a Personal Retrospectroscope

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 288-291

  Knudson, Alfred G ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLESTERASE; CARCINOGEN; MERLIN; NEUROFIBROMIN; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

AGING; BASAL CELL NEVUS SYNDROME; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL DIVISION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME 16P; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COLON CANCER; COWDEN SYNDROME; DROSOPHILA; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HAMARTOMA; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEUKEMIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEOPLASMS;

FALCO COLUMBARIUS;

EID: 0344412837     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.10254     Document Type: Review

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