Microsatellite instability-low colorectal cancer acquires a KRAS mutation during the progression from Dukes' A to Dukes' B

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 494-499

  Asaka, Shin Ichi ^a   Arai, Yoshiko ^a   Nishimura, Yoji ^a   Yamaguchi, Kensei ^a   Ishikubo, Tsutomu ^a   Yatsuoka, Toshimasa ^a   Tanaka, Yoichi ^a   Akagi, Kiwamu ^a  

^a SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; B RAF KINASE; K RAS PROTEIN; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; RAS PROTEINS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 62449313740     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgp017     Document Type: Article

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