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Delimiting Allelic Imbalance of TYMS by Allele-Specific Analysis.
Medicine - 1 Jul 2015
Balboa-Beltrán Emilia, Cruz Raquel, Carracedo Angel, Barros Francisco
Abstract excerpt
Allelic imbalance of thymidylate synthase (TYMS) is attributed to polymorphisms in the 5'- and 3'-untranslated region (UTR). These polymorphisms have been related to the risk of suffering different cancers, for example leukemia, breast or gastric cancer, and response to different drugs, among which are methotrexate glutamates, stavudine, and specifically 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), as TYMS is its direct target. A vast...
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