Cancer Letters
Volume 275, Issue 1 , Pages 1-8 , 8 March 2009

Genetic aberrations in soft tissue leiomyosarcoma

  • Jilong Yang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor, Tianjin Cancer Hospital and Institute, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 30060, China
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  • Xiaoling Du

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 30060, China
    • ,
  • Kexin Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Cancer Hospital and Institute, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 30060, China
    • ,
  • Antti Ylipää

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Unit 85, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    • Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
    • ,
  • Alexander J.F. Lazar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Unit 85, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    • Sarcoma Research Center, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Jonathan Trent

      Affiliations

    • Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • Sarcoma Research Center, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Dina Lev

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • Sarcoma Research Center, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Raphael Pollock

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • Sarcoma Research Center, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Xishan Hao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor, Tianjin Cancer Hospital and Institute, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 30060, China
    • Department of Diagnostics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 30060, China
    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Cancer Hospital and Institute, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 30060, China
    • ,
  • Kelly Hunt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Wei Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Unit 85, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 713 745 1103; fax: +1 713 792 5549.

Received 5 April 2008 ,Revised 5 June 2008 ,Accepted 16 June 2008.

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PII: S0304-3835(08)00496-5

doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.06.013

Cancer Letters
Volume 275, Issue 1 , Pages 1-8 , 8 March 2009

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