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Patterns of deregulation of insulin growth factor signalling pathway in paediatric and adult gastrointestinal stromal tumours.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 Nov 2012
Italiano Antoine, Chen Junwei, Zhang Lei, Hajdu Mihai, Singer Samuel, DeMatteo Ronald P, Antonescu Cristina R
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BACKGROUND: Data regarding the patterns and the mechanisms of deregulation of the insulin growth factor (IGF) pathway in adult and paediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are limited. METHODS: We investigated the expression profiling of the genes encoding the main components of the IGF signalling pathway in 131 GISTs (106 adults, 21 paediatric and four young adults) and 25 other soft-tissue sarcomas...
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