Differences in K-ras and p53 gene mutations among pancreatic adenocarcinomas associated with regional environmental pollution

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1794-1799

  Soliman, Amr S ^a   Lo, An Chi ^a   Banerjee, Mousumi ^a   El Ghawalby, Nabih ^b   Khaled, Hussein M ^c   Bayoumi, Sherif ^d   Seifeldin, Ibrahim A ^d   Abdel Aziz, Atef ^e   Abbruzzese, James L ^f   Greenson, Joel K ^g   Hamilton, Stanley R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Tanta Cancer Center   (Egypt)

^e ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; K RAS PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; THYMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; EXON; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; GENES, P53; GENES, RAS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548106268     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgm138     Document Type: Article

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