High resolution chromosome 3p allelotyping of human lung cancer and preneoplastic/preinvasive bronchial epithelium reveals multiple, discontinuous sites of 3p allele loss and three regions of frequent breakpoints

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1949-1960

  Wistuba, Ignacio I ^b,d   Behrens, Carmen ^b   Virmani, Arvind K ^a,b   Mele, Gina ^b   Milchgrub, Sara ^a   Girard, Luc ^b   Fondon III, John W ^c   Garner, Harold R ^c   McKay, Bruce ^h   Latif, Farida ^f   Lerman, Michael I ^g   Lam, Stephen ^e   Gazdar, Adi F ^a,b   Minna, John D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Hamon Ctr Therapeut Oncol Res   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CHROMOSOME 3P; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME LOSS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BRONCHI; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

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