Prevalence of Pathological Germline Mutations of hMLH1 and hMSH2 Genes in Colorectal Cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Li, Dandan ^a   Hu, Fulan ^a   Wang, Fan ^a   Cui, Binbin ^a   Dong, Xinshu ^a   Zhang, Wencui ^a   Lin, Chunqing ^a   Li, Xia ^a   Wang, Da ^a   Zhao, Yashuang ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2;

AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUSTRALIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; GERMLINE MUTATION; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MLH1 GENE; MSH2 GENE; MUTATION RATE; NETHERLANDS; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 84875121596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051240     Document Type: Article

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