Cancer gene discovery in solid tumours using transposon-based somatic mutagenesis in the mouse

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7048, 2005, Pages 272-276

  Collier, Lara S ^a   Carlson, Corey M ^a   Ravimohan, Shruthi ^a,b   Dupuy, Adam J ^a,c   Largaespada, David A ^a  

^a Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENS; TISSUE;

HAEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEMS; MAMMARY GLANDS; SOMATIC CELLS; TUMOR FORMATION;

TUMORS;

B RAF KINASE; BRAF PROTEIN, MOUSE;

MEDICINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC SCREENING; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEPING BEAUTY TRANSPOSON; SOLID TUMOR; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CELL STRAIN 3T3; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; SARCOMA;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VECTORS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEOPLASMS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; ONCOGENES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; SARCOMA;

EID: 22444444402     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03681     Document Type: Article

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