Familial colorectal cancer in Ashkenazim due to a hypermutable tract in APC

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-83

  Laken, Steven J ^a   Petersen, Gloria M ^a,b   Gruber, Stephen B ^a   Oddoux, Carole ^c   Ostrer, Harry ^c   Giardiello, Francis M ^d   Hamilton, Stanley R ^a,d   Hampel, Heather ^e   Markowitz, Arnold ^e   Klimstra, David ^e   Jhanwar, Suresh ^e   Winawer, Sidney ^e   Offit, Kenneth ^e   Luce, Michael C ^f   Kinzler, Kenneth W ^a   Vogelstein, Bert ^a,g  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

^g HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILIAL COLON POLYPOSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA PRIMERS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENES, APC; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 16944365288     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0997-79     Document Type: Article

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