Microsatellites with macro-influence in Ewing sarcoma

Genes

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 444-460

  Monument, Michael J ^a,b   Johnson, Kirsten M ^a   Grossmann, Allie H ^b   Schiffman, Joshua D ^a,b   Lor Randall, R ^a,b   Lessnick, Stephen L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ETS family transcription factors; EWS FLI; Microsatellite DNA; Microsatellite polymorphisms; Oncogenesis; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN EWS ETS FUSION PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN EWS FLI FUSION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EWING SARCOMA; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MICROSATELLITE RESPONSE ELEMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84865093178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes3030444     Document Type: Review

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