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A genotype of the polymorphic DNA repair gene MGMT is associated with de novo glioblastoma.
Neurological research - 1 Dec 2003
Inoue Ryo, Isono Mitsuo, Abe Masako, Abe Tatsuya, Kobayashi Hidenori
Abstract excerpt
Glioblastoma is one of the most malignant tumors in humans. This tumor is thought to develop as a result of the accumulation of genetic abnormalities, mainly focused on the loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 10. O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), which is one of the most important DNA repair proteins, has also been reported that enzymatic activity, as well as the methylation status of the promoter...
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