Tandem duplication producing a novel oncogenic BRAF fusion gene defines the majority of pilocytic astrocytomas

Cancer Research

Volumn 68, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 8673-8677

  Jones, David T W ^a,c   Kocialkowski, Sylvia ^a   Liu, Lu ^a   Pearson, Danita M ^a   Bäcklund, L Magnus ^b   Ichimura, Koichi ^a   Collins, V Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUSION GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; COS CELLS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 55349107544     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-2097     Document Type: Article

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