Genes that contribute to cancer fusion genes are large and evolutionarily conserved

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 78-84

  Narsing, Swetha ^a   Jelsovsky, Zhihong ^b   Mbah, Alfred ^b   Blanck, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BioStat International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABELSON KINASE; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 1; ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA CRITICAL REGION 1; BCAS3 PROTEIN; BCL2 RELATED PROTEIN A1; BIRC3 PROTEIN; DDX10 PROTEIN; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 153; JAZF1 PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; MYST3 PROTEIN; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS INHIBITORY PROTEIN 3; NOTCH3 RECEPTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE LKB1; RARA PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; RETINOIC ACID INDUCIBLE PROTEIN I; SS18 PROTEIN; SUZ12 PROTEIN; TPM4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETV6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA STRUCTURE; FUSION GENE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FUSION; GENES, MYC; GENES, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCR; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 65549168610     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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