Analysis of a correlation between the BRAF V600E mutation and abnormal DNA mismatch repair in patients with sporadic endometrial cancer

International Journal of Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1541-1547

  Kawaguchi, Makiko ^a   Yanokura, Megumi ^a   Banno, Kouji ^a   Kobayashi, Yusuke ^a   Kuwabara, Yoshiko ^a   Kobayashi, Maya ^a   Nomura, Hiroyuki ^a   Hirasawa, Akira ^a   Susumu, Nobuyuki ^a   Aoki, Daisuke ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

BRAF; Endometrial cancer; hMLH1; KRAS; Microsatellite instability

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; K RAS PROTEIN; PROTEIN MLH1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE HYPERMETHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORADIC ENDOMETRIAL CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; RAS PROTEINS;

EID: 67649435461     PISSN: 10196439     EISSN: 17912423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijo_00000283     Document Type: Article

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