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Gene and chromosomal alterations in sporadic breast cancer: correlation with histopathological features and implications for genesis and progression.
Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2009
Tsuda Hitoshi
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A number of gene and chromosome alterations have been identified in sporadic breast carcinomas, and their clinical implications have been investigated. Changes in proto-oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes, e.g., HER2, p53, and E-cadherin, and various numerical and structural chromosome alterations are strongly correlated with histological type and grade in breast carcinomas. The amount of information on these...
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