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KRAS Mutations in Canine and Feline Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma.
Journal of comparative pathology - 1 Jul 2016
Crozier C, Wood G A, Foster R A, Stasi S, Liu J H W, Bartlett J M S, Coomber B L, Sabine V S
Abstract excerpt
Companion animals may serve as valuable models for studying human cancers. Although KRAS is the most commonly mutated gene in human ductal pancreatic cancers (57%), with mutations frequently occurring at codons 12, 13 and 61, human pancreatic acinar cell carcinomas (ACCs) lack activating KRAS mutations. In the present study, 32 pancreatic ACC samples obtained from 14 dogs and 18 cats, including seven metastases,...
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