Somatic copy number alterations associated with Japanese or endometriosis in ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma.

When compared with other epithelial ovarian cancers, the clinical characteristics of ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCC) include 1) a higher incidence among Japanese, 2) an association with endometriosis, 3) poor prognosis in advanced stages, and 4) a higher incidence of thrombosis as a complica...

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Main Authors: Aikou Okamoto, Jalid Sehouli, Nozomu Yanaihara, Yukihiro Hirata, Ioana Braicu, Byoung-Gie Kim, Satoshi Takakura, Misato Saito, Satoshi Yanagida, Masataka Takenaka, Noriko Yamaguchi, Asuka Morikawa, Hiroshi Tanabe, Kyosuke Yamada, Kosuke Yoshihara, Takayuki Enomoto, Hiroaki Itamochi, Junzo Kigawa, Noriomi Matsumura, Ikuo Konishi, Satoshi Aida, Yuko Aoki, Nobuya Ishii, Kazunori Ochiai, Tetsu Akiyama, Mitsuyoshi Urashima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4319764?pdf=render