Structural and functional analysis of SMAD4 gene promoter in malignant pancreatic and colorectal tissues: Detection of two novel polymorphic nucleotide repeats

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-271

  Nikolic, Aleksandra ^a   Kojic, Snezana ^a   Knezevic, Srbislav ^b   Krivokapic, Zoran ^b   Ristanovic, Momcilo ^a   Radojkovic, Dragica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Pancreatic cancer; SMAD4 gene

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; LUCIFERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA; SMAD4 PROTEIN; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79956024941     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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