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Infrequent mutation of Waf1/p21 gene, a CDK inhibitor gene, in brain tumors.
Neurologia medico-chirurgica - 1 Feb 1997
Tsumanuma I, Tanaka R, Abe S, Kawasaki T, Washiyama K, Kumanishi T
Abstract excerpt
Possible mutations of the Waf1/p21 gene, a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor gene, were investigated in biopsy specimens of 28 brain tumors using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-single strand conformation polymorphism and nucleotide sequence analysis. There were 15 astrocytic tumors, six medulloblastomas, five pineal parenchymal tumors, and two neuroblastomas. A mutation was detected in exon 2, which...
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