Novel BRAF alteration in a sporadic pilocytic astrocytoma

Case Reports in Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dahiya, Sonika ^a   Yu, Jinsheng ^a   Kaul, Aparna ^a   Leonard, Jeffrey R ^a   Gutmann, David H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAF GENE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXON; FUSION GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIAA1549 BRAF FUSION GENE; MALE; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84871992431     PISSN: 16879627     EISSN: 16879635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/418672     Document Type: Article

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