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Both germ line and somatic genetics of the p53 pathway affect ovarian cancer incidence and survival.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jan 2008
Bartel Frank, Jung Juliane, Böhnke Anja, Gradhand Elise, Zeng Katharina, Thomssen Christoph, Hauptmann Steffen
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Although p53 is one of the most studied genes/proteins in ovarian carcinomas, the predictive value of p53 alterations is still ambiguous. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We performed analyses of the TP53 mutational status and its protein expression using immunohistochemistry. Moreover, the single nucleotide polymorphism SNP309 in the P2 promoter of the MDM2 gene was investigated. We correlated the results with age...
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