Analysis of molecular aberrations of Wnt pathway gladiators in colorectal cancer in the Kashmiri population

Human Genomics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 441-452

  Sameer, A Syed ^a   Shah, Zaffar A ^a   Abdullah, Safiya ^a   Chowdri, Nissar A ^a   Siddiqi, Mushtaq A ^a  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

APC; Colorectal cancer; Dukes' stage; Hypermethylation; Kashmir; Mutations; Wnt pathway; catenin

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; APC PROTEIN, HUMAN; BETA CATENIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; INDIA; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM GRADING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84856040274     PISSN: 14739542     EISSN: 14797364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-7364-5-5-441     Document Type: Article

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