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PTEN, a unique tumor suppressor gene.
Endocrine-related cancer - 1 Jun 2000
Dahia P L
Abstract excerpt
For many years, it has been thought that the chromosome region 10q22-24 includes one or more genes that appear to play a role in several human malignancies. PTEN is a new tumor suppressor gene encoding a dual-specificity phosphatase that was cloned simultaneously by three groups (Li & Sun 1997, Li et al. 1997, Steck et al. 1997), two of which used a positional cloning approach to identify genes in chromosome 10...
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