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Haploinsufficiency of the <i>Pten</i> tumor suppressor gene promotes prostate cancer progression
11 Sept 2001
Abstract excerpt
The PTEN gene encodes a lipid phosphatase that negatively regulates the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway and is inactivated in a wide variety of malignant neoplasms. High rates of loss of heterozygosity are observed at the 10q23.3 region containing the human PTEN gene in prostate cancer and other human malignancies, but the demonstrated rate of biallelic inactivation of the PTEN gene by mutation or...
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