Colorectal carcinomas show frequent allelic loss on the long arm of chromosome 17 with evidence for a specific target region.
Allelic loss is a common mechanism of inactivation of tumour-suppressor genes in colorectal carcinomas. A number of known or putative tumour-suppressor genes including NF1, BRCA1, NME1, NME2 and prohibitin are present on the long arm of chromosome 17, and this region has not been extensively analyse...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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1995
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2033787/ |