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Allelic loss is often the first hit in the biallelic inactivation of the p53 and DPC4 genes during pancreatic carcinogenesis.
The American journal of pathology - 1 May 2001
Lüttges J, Galehdari H, Bröcker V, Schwarte-Waldhoff I, Henne-Bruns D, Klöppel G, Schmiegel W, Hahn S A
Abstract excerpt
The presumed precursor lesions of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma were recently classified according to their increasing grade of dysplasia and were designated as pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) 1 through 3. In this study, we tested whether molecular genetic alterations can be correlated with this classification and may help to further categorize the various PanIN grades. We determined the...
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