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High prevalence of p53 exon 4 mutations in soft tissue sarcoma.
Cancer - 1 Jun 2007
Das Parimal, Kotilingam Dhanasekaran, Korchin Borys, Liu Jeuhui, Yu Dihua, Lazar Alexander J, Pollock Raphael E, Lev Dina
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BACKGROUND: p53 is the most commonly mutated gene in cancer, including soft tissue sarcoma (STS). The authors characterized p53 alterations (protein accumulation and gene mutation) in STS to evaluate possible associations with patient outcomes. METHODS: Thirty-one STS specimens (multiple histologies) were analyzed by p53 immunohistochemistry (IHC) and direct DNA sequencing of p53 exons 2-11 and then correlated...
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