Colorectal carcinogenesis: Road maps to cancer

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 28, 2007, Pages 3784-3791

  Worthley, Daniel L ^a   Whitehall, Vicki L ^a   Spring, Kevin J ^a   Leggett, Barbara A ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adenoma carcinoma sequence; Adenomas; Colorectal cancer; CpG Island methylator phenotype; Hyperplastic polyps, Microsatellite instability; Neoplastic processes; Serrated adenoma

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; K RAS PROTEIN; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN DCC; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN P53; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

CANCER GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE COURSE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 34547992256     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i28.3784     Document Type: Review

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