Common fusion transcripts identified in colorectal cancer cell lines by high-throughput RNA sequencing

Translational Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 546-553

  Nome, Torfinn ^a,b   Thomassen, Gard O S ^a,b   Bruun, Jarle ^a,b   Ahlquist, Terje ^a,b   Bakken, Anne C ^a,b   Hoff, Andreas M ^a,b   Rognum, Torleiv ^b,c   Nesbakken, Arild ^b,d   Lorenz, Susanne ^a,b   Sun, Jinchang ^a,b   Barros Silva, João Diogo ^b,e   Lind, Guro E ^a,b   Myklebost, Ola ^a,b   Teixeira, Manuel R ^a,e,f   Meza Zepeda, Leonardo A ^a,b   Lothe, Ragnhild A ^a,b   Skotheim, Rolf I ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d AKER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3, 4, 5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE;

EID: 84885716933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19365233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1593/tlo.13457     Document Type: Article

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