The lentiginoses: Cutaneous markers of systemic disease and a window to new aspects of tumourigenesis

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 801-810

  Bauer, A J ^a,b   Stratakis, Constantine A ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; RAS PROTEIN;

CARCINOGENESIS; CARNEY COMPLEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; COWDEN SYNDROME; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAMARTOMA; HEART FUNCTION; HYPERPLASIA; INTEGUMENT; LENTIGINOSIS; LEOPARD SYNDROME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUTATION; NEURAL CREST; NOONAN SYNDROME; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; LENTIGO; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURAL CREST; PEUTZ-JEGHERS SYNDROME; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 27744531210     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2003.017806     Document Type: Review

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