A Big Catch for Germ Cell Tumour Research

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Kenneth S ^a,b   Amatruda, James F ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1B;

ARTICLE; BMPR1B GENE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RESISTANCE; CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FAMILIAL CANCER; FETUS CELL; GERM CELL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LRRC50 GENE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SEMINOMA; TESTIS TUMOR;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84876858427     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003481     Document Type: Article

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