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Malignant glioma: the involvement of loss of allelic heterozygosity and PTEN mutations in a group of Malay patients.
The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health - 1 May 2005
Zainuddin N, Jaafar H, Isa M N, Abdullah J M
Abstract excerpt
Frequent loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and mutations of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted from chromosome 10) have been found in sporadic gliomas. The most documented regions of allelic losses include 9p21, 10q23-25 and 17p1 3 whereas PTEN aberrations are preferentially found in glioblastoma multiformes. This research aimed to detect the incidence of allelic losses on...
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