Lack of oncogenic GNAQ mutations in melanocytic lesions of the conjunctiva as compared to uveal melanoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6180-6182

  Dratviman Storobinsky, Olga ^a   Cohen, Yoram ^b   Frenkel, Shahar ^c   Pe'er, Jacob ^c   Goldenberg Cohen, Nitza ^a,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONJUNCTIVA NEVUS; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; CONJUNCTIVAL MELANOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GNAQ209 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; MELANOSIS; MUTATION RATE; ONCOGENE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; UVEA MELANOMA;

CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MELANOSIS; MUTATION; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955008528     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5677     Document Type: Article

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