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Infrequent mutations of p27Kip1 gene and trisomy 12 in a subset of human pituitary adenomas.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Sept 1997
Tanaka C, Yoshimoto K, Yang P, Kimura T, Yamada S, Moritani M, Sano T, Itakura M
Abstract excerpt
To study the etiologic roles of genes on chromosome 12 for the pituitary tumorigenesis of adenomas, mutations of the p27Kip1 gene and allelic ratios of 18 microsatellite markers on the entire chromosome 12 were studied in 33 pituitary adenomas. The p27Kip1 gene on chromosome 12p12-p13 encoding an inhibitor of complexes between cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases is supposed to function as the tumor suppressor...
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