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Effects of PTEN gene alteration in patients with gallbladder cancer.
Cancer genetics - 1 Dec 2015
Ali Asgar, Mishra Pramod Kumar, Sharma Sadhana, Arora Asit, Saluja Sundeep Singh
Abstract excerpt
Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is an aggressive malignancy usually diagnosed in an advanced stage. We investigated the effects of alterations of the phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN) gene on the occurrence and development of GBC, which has not been previously reported. A total 141 cases of GBC were analyzed for mutation, expression, and methylation across the nine exons of the PTEN gene. DNA sequencing methods...
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