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Some oral carcinomas from Sri Lankan betel/tobacco chewers overexpress p53 oncoprotein but lack mutations in exons 5-9.
Anticancer research - 1 Jan 2000
Ranasinghe A, MacGeoch C, Dyer S, Spurr N, Johnson N W
Abstract excerpt
We reported a low prevalence (11%) of p53 expression detected by immunohistochemistry in oral squamous cell carcinomas associated with betel/tobacco chewing Sri Lankans (23). Five neoplasms which over-expressed p53 protein were used in the present study of mutations. Despite extensive sequence analysis no mutations were detected in exons 5 through 9 of the p53 gene in all the DNA samples of these neoplasms. Thus,...
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