A critical reassessment of the role of mitochondria in tumorigenesis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1158-1166

  Salas, Antonio ^a,b   Yao, Yong Gang ^c   Macaulay, Vincent ^d   Vega, Ana ^a,b   Carracedo, Ángel ^a,b   Bandelt, Hans Jürgen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Pediatric Nutrition Research Group Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TUMOR MARKER;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION RESEARCH; ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MEDICAL GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ARTIFACTS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 28444447123     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020296     Document Type: Article

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