Cowden disease, a dominantly inherited syndrome characterized by a variety of proliferative lesions and predisposition to breast and thyroid cancer, has recently been linked to the polymorphic marker D10S215 on chromosome segment 10q23. Loss of heterozygosity in prostate cancer is linked to the same
Allele loss in colorectal cancer at the Cowden disease/Juvenile Polyposis locus on 10q
β Scribed by Ian M. Frayling; Walter F. Bodmer; Ian P.M. Tomlinson
- Book ID
- 114136267
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 574 KB
- Volume
- 97
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-4608
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