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Conservation of the class I beta-tubulin gene in human populations and lack of mutations in lung cancers and paclitaxel-resistant ovarian cancers.
Molecular cancer therapeutics - 1 Jan 2002
Sale Sanja, Sung Raphael, Shen Peidong, Yu Kristine, Wang Yan, Duran George E, Kim Jong-Hyeok, Fojo Tito, Oefner Peter J, Sikic Branimir I
Abstract excerpt
The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of sequence variants in the class I beta-tubulin (clone m40) gene and their occurrence in human tumors and cancer cell lines. DNA was isolated from 93 control individuals representing a wide variety of ethnicities, 49 paclitaxel-naive specimens (16 ovarian cancers, 17 non-small cell lung cancers, and 16 ovarian cancer cell lines), and 30 paclitaxel-resistant...
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