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p16 overexpression: a potential early indicator of transformation in ovarian carcinoma.
Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation - 1 Jan 2000
Shigemasa K, Hu C, West C M, Clarke J, Parham G P, Parmley T H, Korourian S, Baker V V, O'Brien T J
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OBJECTIVE: The recently cloned gene p16 (MST1) has been identified as a putative tumor suppressor gene that binds to CDK4 and CDK6 (cyclin-dependent kinases), preventing their interaction with cyclin D1 and thereby preventing cell cycle progression at the G1 stage. In addition, the p16 gene has been shown to have a high frequency of mutation in some tumor cell lines; however, it has also been shown that a much...
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