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Gene of the month: PIK3CA.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Apr 2015
Lai K, Killingsworth M C, Lee C S
Abstract excerpt
PIK3CA encodes the p110α catalytic subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) which through its role in the PI3K/Akt pathway is important for the regulation of important cellular functions such as proliferation, metabolism and protein synthesis, angiogenesis and apoptosis. Mutations in PIK3CA are known to be involved in a wide range of human cancers and mutant PIK3CA is thought to act as an oncogene. The...
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