Familial multiple cutaneous and uterine leiomyomas associated with papillary renal cell cancer

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-78

  Chan, I ^a   Wong, T ^a   Martinez Mir, A ^b   Christiano, A M ^b   McGrath, J A ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYSTEINE; FUMARATE HYDRATASE; FUMARIC ACID; GLYCINE; MALIC ACID; PROLINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; KIDNEY CANCER; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UTERUS MYOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUMARATE HYDRATASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 13244279482     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2004.01675.x     Document Type: Article

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