Malignant cancer and invasive placentation: A case for positive pleiotropy between endometrial and malignancy phenotypes

Evolution, Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 136-145

  D'Souza, Alaric W ^a   Wagner, Günter P ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Cancer; Evolution of malignancy; Evolution of placentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INVASION; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 84926475090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20506201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emph/eou022     Document Type: Article

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