Frequency of TERT promoter mutations in human cancers.

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Published in Nat Commun on January 01, 2013

Authors

João Vinagre1, Ana Almeida, Helena Pópulo, Rui Batista, Joana Lyra, Vasco Pinto, Ricardo Coelho, Ricardo Celestino, Hugo Prazeres, Luis Lima, Miguel Melo, Adriana Gaspar da Rocha, Ana Preto, Patrícia Castro, Ligia Castro, Fernando Pardal, José Manuel Lopes, Lúcio Lara Santos, Rui Manuel Reis, José Cameselle-Teijeiro, Manuel Sobrinho-Simões, Jorge Lima, Valdemar Máximo, Paula Soares

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.

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