Associations between variants in KITLG, SPRY4, BAK1, and DMRT1 and pediatric germ cell tumors

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 266-271

  Poynter, Jenny N ^a,b   Hooten, Anthony J ^b   Lindsay Frazier, A ^c   Ross, Julie A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONAD TUMOR; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEX FACTORS; STEM CELL FACTOR; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855474087     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20951     Document Type: Article

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