Genetic predisposition to human disease: Allele-specific expression and low-penetrance regulatory loci

Oncogene

Volumn 28, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 3345-3348

  De La Chapelle, A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele specific expression; APC; DAPK1; TGFBR1

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MYC PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1;

ALLELE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

EID: 70349471095     PISSN: 09509232     EISSN: 14765594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/onc.2009.194     Document Type: Review

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