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Association of poor prognosis with loss of 12q, 17p, and 18q, and concordant loss of 6q/17p and 12q/18q in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 Aug 2000
Yatsuoka T, Sunamura M, Furukawa T, Fukushige S, Yokoyama T, Inoue H, Shibuya K, Takeda K, Matsuno S, Horii A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Pancreatic cancer is one of the diseases with the poorest prognosis, but the associated genetic alterations are not yet well understood. The genetic alterations reported to date in pancreatic cancer include frequent mutations of the KRAS, TP53, p16, and SMAD4 genes. Mutation of the TP53 gene was reported to be associated with a poor prognosis. In this study, we analyzed the association of loss of...
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