Mutations in the WTX - gene are found in some high-grade microsatellite instable (MSI-H) colorectal cancers

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Scheel, Silvio K ^a   Porzner, Marc ^b   Pfeiffer, Sabine ^a   Ormanns, Steffen ^a   Kirchner, Thomas ^a   Jung, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITÄT HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; AXIN; BETA CATENIN; B RAF KINASE; BRAF PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA; FAM123B PROTEIN, HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RNA ISOLATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BETA CATENIN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, APC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 77955284410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-413     Document Type: Article

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