Trichoepitheliomas contain somatic mutations in the overexpressed PTCH gene: Support for a gatekeeper mechanism in skin tumorigenesis

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4677-4681

  Vořechovský, Igor ^a,b   Undén, Anne Birgitte ^a,c   Sandstedt, Bengt ^c   Toftgård, Rune ^a   Ståhle Bäckdahl, Mona ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BASAL CELL NEVUS SYNDROME; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN CARCINOMA; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRICHOEPITHELIOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1842330252     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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