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The NRG1 gene is frequently silenced by methylation in breast cancers and is a strong candidate for the 8p tumour suppressor gene.
Oncogene - 19 Nov 2009
Chua Y L, Ito Y, Pole J C M, Newman S, Chin S-F, Stein R C, Ellis I O, Caldas C, O'Hare M J, Murrell A, Edwards P A W
Abstract excerpt
Neuregulin-1 (NRG1) is both a candidate oncogene and a candidate tumour suppressor gene. It not only encodes the heregulins and other mitogenic ligands for the ERBB family, but also causes apoptosis in NRG1-expressing cells. We found that most breast cancer cell lines had reduced or undetectable...
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