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TP53 genetic alterations in head-and-neck carcinomas from Brazil.
International journal of cancer - 30 Mar 1998
Nagai M A, Miracca E C, Yamamoto L, Moura R P, Simpson A J, Kowalski L P, Brentani R R
Abstract excerpt
In this study we investigated the incidence of mutations and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of the TP53 gene in DNA samples from paired tumor and adjacent normal tissue from 90 patients with untreated squamous-cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Evidence for TP53 mutations were demonstrated in 53% (48/90) of the cases analyzed. All cases were also examined for loss of heterozygosity, using a PCR-based polymorphic...
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