Epithelial ovarian cancer: the role of cell cycle genes in the different histotypes

Giuseppina D'Andrilli1, Antonio Giordano, Alessandro Bovicelli

  • 1Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Dept. of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.

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