The impact of genetics on sarcoma diagnosis: An evolving science

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 12, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 5256-5257

  Barr, Frederic G ^a   Zhang, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100; RNA BINDING PROTEIN EWS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RESEARCH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; EWING SARCOMA; FIBROSARCOMA; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY TUMOR; MESOBLASTIC NEPHROMA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYXOSARCOMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; GENE FUSION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; SARCOMA;

EID: 33749359436     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-1321     Document Type: Editorial

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