Monoclonality of multifocal epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the liver by analysis of WWTR1-CAMTA1 breakpoints

Cancer Genetics

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 12-17

  Errani, Costantino ^a,b   Sung, Yun Shao ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Healey, John H ^a   Antonescu, Cristina R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma; Metastasis; Monoclonality; Multifocality; Vascular tumor; WWTR1 CAMTA1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMTA1 GENE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MULTIPLE CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR GENE; WWTR1 GENE;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME BREAKPOINTS; CLONAL EVOLUTION; CLONE CELLS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA, EPITHELIOID; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84860238183     PISSN: 22107762     EISSN: 22107770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergen.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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