Chromosome X modulates incidence of testicular germ cell tumors in Ter mice

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 832-838

  Hammond, Shirley ^a   Zhu, Rui ^a   Youngren, Kirsten K ^b   Lam, Josephine ^b   Anderson, Philip ^b   Matin, Angabin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAD END GENE; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEREDITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

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EID: 38549098349     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: 14321777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-007-9075-8     Document Type: Article

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