A Japanese case of familial cardiac myxoma associated with a mutation of the PRKAR1α gene

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 607-610

  Kojima, Satoshi ^b   Sumiyoshi, Masataka ^b   Watanabe, Yoshiro ^a   Suwa, Satoru ^b   Matsumoto, Michio ^b   Nakata, Yasuro ^b   Daida, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a Nihon University   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Familial cardiac myxoma; Molecular genetic analysis; Recurrence; The PRKAR1 gene

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 1 ALPHA REGULATORY SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MYXOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EXONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MUTATION; MYXOMA; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEINS;

EID: 21644482173     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.607     Document Type: Article

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