Werner syndrome gene variants in human sarcomas

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 166-174

  Hsu, Jessica J ^a   Kamath Loeb, Ashwini S ^a   Glick, Eitan ^a,b   Wallden, Brett ^a,c   Swisshelm, Karen ^a,d   Rubin, Brian P ^a,e   Loeb, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Beeologics IL   (Israel)

^c ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; DNA helicase; Polymorphism; Sarcoma; Werner syndrome

Indexed keywords

EXONUCLEASE; HELICASE; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SEQUENCE; SARCOMA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WERNER SYNDROME; WERNER SYNDROME GENE;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SARCOMA; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 75849124046     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: 10982744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mc.20586     Document Type: Article

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