Rare occurrence of PHOX2b mutations in sporadic neuroblastomas

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 728-732

  Serra, Alexandre ^a   Häberle, Beate ^c   König, Inke R ^b   Kappler, Roland ^c   Suttorp, Meinolf ^a   Schackert, Hans K ^a   Roesner, Dietmar ^a   Fitze, Guido ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mutations; PHOX2b; Polymorphisms; Sporadic neuroblastoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOX2B GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GENE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INFANT; MUTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NBPHOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUTATION; NEUROBLASTOMA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 58149240253     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3181772141     Document Type: Article

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