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Proapoptotic gene BAX is frequently mutated in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancers but not in adenomas.
Gastroenterology - 1 Feb 1998
Yagi O K, Akiyama Y, Nomizu T, Iwama T, Endo M, Yuasa Y
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: The p53 and BAX genes have been linked to apoptosis. p53 was not frequently found to be mutated in colorectal carcinomas with a microsatellite mutator phenotype, but frame-shift mutations in a tract of eight guanines within BAX were frequently found in these carcinomas. To unde...
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