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Unsupervised analysis uncovers changes in histopathologic diagnosis in supervised genomic studies.
Technology in cancer research & treatment - 1 Apr 2006
Nykter Matti, Hunt Kelly K, Pollock Raphael E, El-Naggar Adel K, Taylor Ellen, Shmulevich Ilya, Yli-Harja Olli, Zhang Wei
Abstract excerpt
Human gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) have recently emerged as a distinct mesenchymal tumor type that has a unique phenotype characterized by a gain of function mutations in c-kit. In contrast, leiomyosarcomas (LMS) of the gastrointestinal tract or retroperitoneum, which were previously classified together with GISTs as gastrointestinal sarcomas, have much less frequent mutations of c-kit. We performed...
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