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Gain-of-function mutation at the extracellular domain of KIT in gastrointestinal stromal tumours.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Apr 2001
Hirota S, Nishida T, Isozaki K, Taniguchi M, Nakamura J, Okazaki T, Kitamura Y
Abstract excerpt
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumours of the human gastrointestinal tract. Previous studies of GISTs found gain-of-function mutations of the c-kit gene, which encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase (KIT). All the mutations were confined to exon 11, which enc...
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