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Downregulation of Rap1GAP through epigenetic silencing and loss of heterozygosity promotes invasion and progression of thyroid tumors.
Cancer research - 15 Feb 2010
Zuo Hui, Gandhi Manoj, Edreira Martin M, Hochbaum Daniel, Nimgaonkar Vishwajit L, Zhang Ping, Dipaola James, Evdokimova Viktoria, Altschuler Daniel L, Nikiforov Yuri E
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Thyroid cancer is the most common type of endocrine malignancy, encompassing tumors with various levels of invasive growth and aggressiveness. Rap1GAP, a Rap1 GTPase-activating protein, inhibits the RAS superfamily protein Rap1 by facilitating hydrolysis of GTP to GDP. In this study, we analyzed...
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