Analysis of mismatch repair genes in hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer patients

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-174

  Liu, Bo ^a   Parsons, Ramon ^a   Papadopoulos, Nickolas ^a   Nicolaides, Nicholas C ^a   Lynch, Henry T ^b   Watson, Patrice ^b   Jass, Jeremy R ^c   Dunlop, Malcolm ^d   Wyllie, Andrew ^e   Peltomäki, Païvi ^f   De La Chapelle, Albert ^f   Hamilton, Stanley R ^g   Vogelstein, Bert ^a   Kinzler, Kenneth W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA REPAIR; FAMILIAL COLON POLYPOSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISMATCH REPAIR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FAMILY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEINS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 2942569549     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0296-169     Document Type: Article

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