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Decreased expression and rare somatic mutation of the CIP1/WAF1 gene in human hepatocellular carcinoma.
Cancer letters - 1 Jan 1997
Furutani M, Arii S, Tanaka H, Mise M, Niwano M, Harada T, Higashitsuji H, Imamura M, Fujita J
Abstract excerpt
CIP1/WAF1, a critical downstream effector of tumor suppressor p53, encodes a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor. By Northern blot analysis, the CIP1/WAF1 mRNA level in the tumor was significantly lower than that in the corresponding normal liver from 19 Japanese patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (P < 0.05). In the tumor from only one out of 19 patients (5%), somatic mutations of the CIP1/WAF1 as well as that...
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