Germline epimutation of MLH1 in individuals with multiple cancers

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 497-501

  Suter, Catherine M ^a   Martin, David I K ^b,c   Ward, Robyn L ^a,c  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INHERITANCE; MALE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MLH1 GENE; MOSAICISM; MULTIPLE CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 2442424419     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1342     Document Type: Article

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