Low frequency of TERT promoter mutations in a large cohort of gallbladder and gastric cancers

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2993-2994

  Qu, Yiping ^a   Shi, Lei ^a   Wang, Dan ^a   Zhang, Bingfei ^a   Yang, Qi ^a   Ji, Meiju ^a   Shi, Bingyin ^a   Hou, Peng ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STOMACH CANCER; TERT GENE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84898006985     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28633     Document Type: Letter

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