Frequent alterations of Ras signaling pathway genes in sporadic malignant melanomas

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 377-384

  Reifenberger, Julia ^a   Knobbe, Christiane B ^a   Sterzinger, Astrid A ^a   Blaschke, Britta ^a   Schulte, Klaus W ^a   Ruzicka, Thomas ^a   Reifenberger, Guido ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BRAF; Melanoma; Methylation; Mutation; NRAS; PTEN; RASSF1A

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; BINDING PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAS ASSOCIATION DOMAIN FAMILY PROTEIN 1A; RAS PROTEIN; TRICHOSTATIN A; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; MITOGENICITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE BRAF; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE N RAS; ONCOGENE RAS; ONCOGENE RASSFIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AZACITIDINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, RAS; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HUMANS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 1342330881     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.11722     Document Type: Article

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