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Allelic imbalance and mutations of the PTEN gene in ovarian cancer.
International journal of cancer - 15 Jan 2000
Saito M, Okamoto A, Kohno T, Takakura S, Shinozaki H, Isonishi S, Yasuhara T, Yoshimura T, Ohtake Y, Ochiai K, Yokota J, Tanaka T
Abstract excerpt
The PTEN/MMAC1/TEP1 tumor-suppressor gene, which maps to chromosome 10q23.3, is mutated and homozygously deleted in a variety of human tumors, including endometrioid-type ovarian tumors. We examined 33 primary ovarian cancers and 3 ovarian borderline tumors for allelic imbalance (AI) of the 10q23.3 region using 5 polymorphic markers, including an insertion/deletion-type polymorphic marker identified in intron 4...
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