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Absence of PIK3CA hotspot mutations in hepatocellular carcinoma in Japanese patients.
Oncogene - 11 May 2006
Tanaka Y, Kanai F, Tada M, Asaoka Y, Guleng B, Jazag A, Ohta M, Ikenoue T, Tateishi K, Obi S, Kawabe T, Yokosuka O, Omata M
Abstract excerpt
A recent study revealed that the p110alpha (PIK3CA), catalytic subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), is somatically mutated in many types of cancer. For example, PIK3CA is mutated in an estimated 35.6% of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cases. To measure the frequency of PIK3CA hotspot mutations in Japanese HCC patients, exons 9 and 20 of the PIK3CA gene were sequenced in 47 clinical HCC samples....
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