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Absence of nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1) gene mutations in common solid cancers.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 Apr 2007
Jeong Eun Goo, Lee Sung Hak, Yoo Nam Jin, Lee Sug Hyung
Abstract excerpt
Nucleophosmin is a nucleolar phosphoprotein that shuttles between nucleus and cytoplasm. Recent reports demonstrated that exon 12 of the nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1) gene was frequently mutated in acute myelogenous leukemias (AMLs). To see whether the NPM1 mutation occurs in other malignancies, we analyzed exon 12 of NPM1 for the detection of somatic mutations in 467 carcinomas, including 142 lung, 47 hepatocellular,...
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