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p53 haploinsufficiency and functional abnormalities in multiple myeloma.
Leukemia - 1 Oct 2014
Teoh P J, Chung T H, Sebastian S, Choo S N, Yan J, Ng S B, Fonseca R, Chng W J
Abstract excerpt
Hemizygous deletion of 17p13, which harbors the TP53 gene, has been identified in >10% of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) patients and is associated with poor prognosis. To date, there is no conclusive evidence that TP53 is the critical gene. Furthermore, the functional effect of TP53 haploinsufficiency is not well characterized. By utilizing human myeloma cell lines, we showed that TP53 hemizygous loss was...
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