Somatic mutations of the mitochondrial genome in human breast cancers

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 800-811

  Tseng, Ling Ming ^a   Yin, Pen Hui ^b   Yang, Chu Wen ^c   Tsai, Yi Fang ^a   Hsu, Chih Yi ^b   Chi, Chin Wen ^a,b   Lee, Hsin Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAIWAN;

AGE FACTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 80051570214     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20901     Document Type: Article

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