Genetic testing for germline mutations of the APC gene in patients with apparently sporadic desmoid tumors but a family history of colorectal carcinoma

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1275-1281

  Brueckl, Wolfgang M ^a   Ballhausen, Wolfgang G ^b   Förtsch, Thomas ^a   Günther, Klaus ^a   Fiedler, Wolfgang ^b   Gentner, Bernhard ^a   Croner, Roland ^a   Boxberger, Frank ^a   Kirchner, Thomas ^a   Hahn, Eckhart G ^a   Hohenberger, Werner ^a   Wein, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenomatous poly posis coli; Desmoid tumor; Familial adenomatous polyposis; Germline mutation

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOLSIS COLI GENE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOID TUMOR; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS, AGGRESSIVE; GENES, APC; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE;

EID: 21244463567     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0949-5     Document Type: Article

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