Sarcomas: Genetics, signalling, and cellular origins. Part 2: TET-independent fusion proteins and receptor tyrosine kinase mutations

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-130

  Suva M L ^a   Cironi, L ^a   Riggi, N ^a   Stamenkovic, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chromosomal translocations; Primary cells of orgin; Sarcoma; Signalling pathways

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; PROTEIN NTRK3; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETV6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX7; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COL1A1 GENE; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SSX GENE; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MUTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SARCOMA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 35348997157     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: 10969896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.2208     Document Type: Review

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