Mutations in BRAF and KRAS differentially distinguish serrated versus non-serrated hyperplastic aberrant crypt foci in humans

Cancer Research

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3551-3554

  Rosenberg, Daniel W ^a,b,c   Yang, Shi ^d   Pleau, Devon C ^a,b   Greenspan, Emily J ^b   Stevens, Richard G ^a,c   Rajan, Thiruchandurai V ^a,c   Heinen, Christopher D ^a,b   Levine, Joel ^a   Zhou, Yijian ^b   O'Brien, Michael J ^d  

^a NEAG Comprehensive Cancer Center   (United States)

^b Center for Molecular Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; K RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, APC; GENES, RAS; HCT116 CELLS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF;

EID: 34248592612     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-0343     Document Type: Article

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