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Enhanced lymphocyte interferon (IFN)-γ responses in a PTEN mutation-negative Cowden disease kindred.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 May 2011
Stevenson R, Fatehullah A, Jagan I, Deevi R K, Bingham V, Irvine A E, Armstrong M, Morrison P J, Dimmick I, Stewart R, Campbell F C
Abstract excerpt
Identification of immune modifiers of inherited cancer syndromes may provide a rationale for preventive therapy. Cowden disease (CD) is a genetically heterogeneous inherited cancer syndrome that arises predominantly from germline phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) mutation and increased phosphoinositide 3-kinase/mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K/mTOR) signalling. However, many...
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