TERT promoter mutation is absent in oral mucosal melanoma

Oral Oncology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2015, Pages e65-e66

  Miao, Yuwen ^a   Wang, Runxiang ^b   Ju, Houyu ^b   Ren, Guoxin ^b   Guo, Wei ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MUCOSAL MELANOMA; ORAL MUCOSAL MELANOMA; POINT MUTATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOMATIC MUTATION; GENETICS; MELANOMA; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH TUMOR; MUTATION;

HUMANS; MELANOMA; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84942827721     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: 18790593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2015.05.009     Document Type: Letter

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