ATR mutations in endometrial cancer: A window into the role of mismatch repair defects

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3077-3078

  Kauff, Noah D ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2; ATR PROTEIN, HUMAN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ATR GENE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DNA REPAIR; DRUG TARGETING; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXON; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MLH1 GENE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; MUTATION;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 67650333857     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2009.22.2125     Document Type: Editorial

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