A new familial GIST identified [4]

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1342-

  Lasota, Jerzy ^a   Miettinen, Markku ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMATINIB;

ALLELE; EXON; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; EXONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCHYMOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33748992848     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213364.56498.3b     Document Type: Letter

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