The cancer/testis genes: Review, standardization, and commentary

Cancer Immunity

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Scanlan, Matthew J ^a   Simpson, Andrew J G ^a   Old, Lloyd J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer testis; Human; mRNA; Tissue distribution; Tumor antigens

Indexed keywords

CANCER TESTIS ANTIGEN; CANCER VACCINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CANCER TESTIS GENE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COLON CANCER; DATA BASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MELANOMA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NOMENCLATURE; ONCOGENE; PROSTATE CANCER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

EID: 2942591945     PISSN: 14249634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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