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A modified sleeping beauty transposon system that can be used to model a wide variety of human cancers in mice.
Cancer research - 15 Oct 2009
Dupuy Adam J, Rogers Laura M, Kim Jinsil, Nannapaneni Kishore, Starr Timothy K, Liu Pentao, Largaespada David A, Scheetz Todd E, Jenkins Nancy A, Copeland Neal G
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Recent advances in cancer therapeutics stress the need for a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving tumor formation. This can be accomplished by obtaining a more complete description of the genes that contribute to cancer. We previously described an approach using the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system to model hematopoietic malignancies in mice. Here, we describe modifications of the SB...
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