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Genetic mutual relationship between PTEN and p53 in gastric cancer.
Cancer letters - 8 Sept 2005
Oki Eiji, Tokunaga Eriko, Nakamura Toshihiko, Ueda Naoyuki, Futatsugi Motonori, Mashino Kohjiro, Yamamoto Manabu, Watanabe Masayuki, Ikebe Masahiko, Kakeji Yoshihiro, Baba Hideo, Maehara Yoshihiko
Abstract excerpt
Both PTEN (encoding phosphate and tensin homologue) and p53 are known as cancer suppressor genes, and they are assumed that their gene mutations and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) occur frequently in various types of carcinoma. In the present study, we investigated both the p53 mutation and LOH of PTEN in 113 gastric cancer patients. We observed the LOH of PTEN in 11.1% of the patients with normal p53s and 46.2% of...
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