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Molecular analysis of PTEN and MXI1 in primary bladder carcinoma.
International journal of cancer - 15 Nov 2000
Wang D S, Rieger-Christ K, Latini J M, Moinzadeh A, Stoffel J, Pezza J A, Saini K, Libertino J A, Summerhayes I C
Abstract excerpt
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on 10q is associated with late-stage events in urothelial neoplastic progression. The tumor suppressor gene PTEN, which is mutated or homozygously deleted in numerous cancers, maps to a region of 10q within the reported region of minimal loss in bladder tumors. In two recent studies alterations in the PTEN gene occur at a low frequency in bladder tumors displaying 10q LOH. We have...
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