Novel mutations of the HRAS gene and absence of hotspot mutations of the BRAF genes in oral squamous cell carcinoma in a Greek population

Oncology Reports

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1555-1560

  Koumaki, Dimitra ^a   Kostakis, George ^b   Koumaki, Vasiliki ^c   Papadogeorgakis, Nikolaos ^b   Makris, Michael ^a   Katoulis, Alexandros ^a   Kamakari, Smaragda ^d   Koutsodontis, George ^d   Perisanidis, Christos ^e   Lambadiari, Vaia ^c   Chrysomali, Evanthia ^b   Stavrianeas, Nikolaos ^a   Alexandridis, Constantinos ^b   Rigopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d Biogenomica SA   (Greece)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

BRAF; HRAS; Oral squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CYTOSINE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; THYMINE; VALINE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BRAF GENE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GREECE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HRAS GENE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS);

EID: 84858197856     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.2012.1653     Document Type: Article

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