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A novel mutation of the PTEN gene in a Japanese patient with Cowden syndrome and bilateral breast cancer.
Cancer genetics and cytogenetics - 1 Jul 2008
Tate Genshu, Suzuki Takao, Endo Yutaka, Mitsuya Toshiyuki
Abstract excerpt
Cowden syndrome (CS), also known as multiple hamartoma syndrome, is an autosomal dominant cancer syndrome associated with a high risk of breast and thyroid cancers. The phosphatase and tensin homolog gene (PTEN) encodes a lipid phosphatase that contains a PTPase domain and a C2 domain and plays a role as a tumor suppressor that negatively regulates the cell-survival signaling pathway initiated by...
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