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BMI1 cooperates with H-RAS to induce an aggressive breast cancer phenotype with brain metastases.
Oncogene - 27 Aug 2009
Hoenerhoff M J, Chu I, Barkan D, Liu Z-y, Datta S, Dimri G P, Green J E
Abstract excerpt
B-lymphoma Moloney murine leukaemia virus insertion region-1 (BMI1) is a member of the polycomb group of transcription repressors, which functions in stem cell maintenance and oncogenesis through the inhibition of the INK4A/ARF tumour suppressor locus. Overexpression of BMI1 is associated with poor prognosis in several human cancers, including breast cancer. We have previously shown that BMI1 collaborates with...
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