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Mutation of p53 in primary biopsy material and cell lines from Hodgkin disease.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Apr 1993
Gupta R K, Patel K, Bodmer W F, Bodmer J G
Abstract excerpt
The p53 tumor-suppressor gene encodes a nuclear phosphoprotein that arrests cell cycle progress at G1. It may facilitate DNA damage repair and is frequently mutated in many human tumors. Hodgkin disease, a malignant condition of the lymphoid system, is characterized by the presence of Reed-Sternberg cells and mononuclear variants (Hodgkin cells), whose etiology remains unknown. The large multinucleated...
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