Prevalence of the alternative lengthening of telomeres telomere maintenance mechanism in human cancer subtypes

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1608-1615

  Heaphy, Christopher M ^a   Subhawong, Andrea P ^a   Hong, Seung Mo ^a   Goggins, Michael G ^a   Montgomery, Elizabeth A ^a   Gabrielson, Edward ^a   Netto, George J ^a   Epstein, Jonathan I ^a   Lotan, Tamara L ^a   Westra, William H ^a   Shih, Ie Ming ^a   Iacobuzio Donahue, Christine A ^a   Maitra, Anirban ^a,b   Li, Qing K ^a   Eberhart, Charles G ^a   Taube, Janis M ^a   Rakheja, Dinesh ^c   Kurman, Robert J ^a   Wu, T C ^a   Roden, Richard B ^a   Argani, Pedram ^a   De Marzo, Angelo M ^a   Terracciano, Luigi ^d   Torbenson, Michael ^a   Meeker, Alan K ^a   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE LENGTHENING OF TELOMERE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BENIGN TUMOR; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SAMPLE; TELOMERE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 80053229934     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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