TERT promoter mutations associate with fast-growing melanoma

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 236-238

  Nagore, Eduardo ^a   Heidenreich, Barbara ^b   Requena, Celia ^a   García Casado, Zaida ^a   Martorell Calatayud, Antonio ^a   Pont Sanjuan, Virginia ^c   Jimenez Sanchez, Ana I ^c   Kumar, Rajiv ^b  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MELANOMA; PROMOTER REGION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS; MUTATION; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84958593006     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12441     Document Type: Article

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