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Molecular characterization of pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 May 2008
Agaram Narasimhan P, Laquaglia Michael P, Ustun Berrin, Guo Tianhua, Wong Grace C, Socci Nicholas D, Maki Robert G, DeMatteo Ronald P, Besmer Peter, Antonescu Cristina R
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PURPOSE: Pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are rare and occur preferentially in females as multifocal gastric tumors, typically lacking mutations in KIT and PDGFRA. As KIT oncoprotein is consistently overexpressed in pediatric GIST, we sought to investigate the activation of KIT do...
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