Frequent PLAG1 gene rearrangements in skin and soft tissue myoepithelioma with ductal differentiation

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 675-682

  Antonescu, Cristina R ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Shao, Sung Yun ^a   Mosquera, Juan Miguel ^b   Weinreb, Ilan ^c   Katabi, Nora ^a   Fletcher, Christopher D M ^d  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR RECEPTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA GENE 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3P; CHROMOSOME 5P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MYOEPITHELIOMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN TUMOR; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HMGA2 PROTEIN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOEPITHELIOMA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; SALIVARY GLANDS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84877924876     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.22063     Document Type: Article

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