Article
MDM2 SNP309 and cancer risk: a combined analysis.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Nov 2007
Wilkening Stefan, Bermejo Justo Lorenzo, Hemminki Kari
Abstract excerpt
A paper by Bond et al. reported that a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the intronic promoter region of the mouse double minute 2 (MDM2) gene (called SNP309) can significantly change the expression of MDM2 and thereby suppress the p53 pathway. Furthermore, it was shown that SNP309 accelerates tumor formation in Li-Fraumeni patients. This initial report aroused the attention of many researchers, which...
Topics
- Breast Neoplasms
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- Gene Frequency
- Humans
- Lung Neoplasms
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2
- Risk Factors
