Distinguishing between cancer driver and passenger gene alteration candidates via cross-species comparison: A pilot study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ji, Xinglai ^a   Tang, Jie ^a   Halberg, Richard ^b   Busam, Dana ^c   Ferriera, Steve ^c   Peña, Maria M O ^d   Venkataramu, Chinnambally ^e   Yeatman, Timothy J ^e   Zhao, Shaying ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DCC GENE; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; MCC GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PILOT STUDY; SMAD4 GENE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 5; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

SMAD4 PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, APC; GENES, DCC; GENES, MCC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PILOT PROJECTS; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955502880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-426     Document Type: Article

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