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Mutational analysis of CASP10 gene in colon, breast, lung and hepatocellular carcinomas.
Pathology - 1 Jan 2010
Oh Ji Eun, Kim Min Sung, Ahn Chang Hyeok, Kim Sung Soo, Han Ji Youn, Lee Sug Hyung, Yoo Nam Jin
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AIMS: Evasion of apoptosis is a feature of cancer cells. As a mechanism of apoptosis inactivation in cancer cells, somatic mutations of pro-apoptotic genes have been reported in many cancers. Caspase-10 is an initiation-phase caspase, and somatic mutation of CASP10 that encodes caspase-10 has been found in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and gastric carcinoma. METHODS: The aim of this study was to explore whether CASP10...
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