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Mutational analysis of the tumor suppressor Smad2 in acute lymphoid and myeloid leukemia.
Leukemia - 1 Jul 1998
Wieser R, Gruber B, Rieder H, Fonatsch C
Abstract excerpt
Smad4 is a tumor suppressor that is inactivated in about 50% of pancreatic carcinomas. Mutations in this gene have also been found with variable, yet much lower frequency in other tumor types and were absent from a large number of samples from patients with hematological malignancies. Smad2 shows considerable sequence similarity with Smad4 and cooperates with it in the growth inhibitory TGF-beta pathway. Smad2...
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