Germline mutations in the vhl gene in patients presenting with phaeochromocytomas

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 337-340

  Van der Harst, E ^a   De Krijger, R R ^a   Dinjens, W N M ^a   Weeks, L E ^a   Bonjer, H J ^a   Bruining, H A ^a   Lamberts, S W J ^a   Koper, J W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; DNA; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; INTRONS; LEUKOCYTES; LIGASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VARIATION (GENETICS); VON HIPPEL-LINDAU TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

EID: 2642668463     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980729)77:3<337::AID-IJC5>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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