Unbalanced germ-line expression of hMLH1 and hMSH2 alleles in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3570-3575

  Curia, Maria Cristina ^a   Palmirotta, Raffaele ^a   Aceto, Gitana ^a   Messerini, Luca ^b   Verì, Maria Concetta ^a   Crognale, Stefania ^a   Valanzano, Rosa ^b   Ficari, Ferdinando ^b   Fracasso, Pierluigi ^c   Stigliano, Vittoria ^c   Tonelli, Francesco ^b   Casale, Vincenzo ^c   Guadagni, Fiorella ^c   Battista, Pasquale ^a   Mariani Costantini, Renato ^a   Cama, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 17444395546     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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