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Somatic mutation of PTEN in bladder carcinoma.
British journal of cancer - 1 May 1999
Aveyard J S, Skilleter A, Habuchi T, Knowles M A
Abstract excerpt
The tumour suppressor gene PTEN/MMAC1, which is mutated or homozygously deleted in glioma, breast and prostate cancer, is mapped to a region of 10q which shows loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in bladder cancer. We screened 123 bladder tumours for LOH in the region of PTEN. In 53 informative muscle invasive tumours (> or = pT2), allele loss was detected in 13 (24.5%) and allelic imbalance in four tumours (overall...
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