The MET proto-oncogene is not a major target for the gain of chromosome 7 in testicular germ-cell tumors of adolescents [6]

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 444, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 480-481

  Kawakami, Takahiro ^a   Okamoto, Keisei ^a   Sugihara, Hiroyuki ^a   Hattori, Takanori ^a   Reeve, Anthony E ^b   Ogawa, Osamu ^c   Okada, Yusaku ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LETTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTO ONCOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENE FREQUENCY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SEMINOMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2542632633     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-004-0995-3     Document Type: Letter

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