Detection of TP53 R249 Mutation in Iranian Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

The TP53 gene encodes tumor protein p53 which play a major role in the etiology of pancreatic cancer. The important role of codon 249 of TP53 for binding of p53 to its sequence-specific consensus site in DNA has been revealed by crystallography’s studies, and mutation at this codon was detected in t...

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Main Authors: Ashraf Mohamadkhani, Elnaz Naderi, Maryam Sharafkhah, Hamid Reza Fazli, Malihe Moradzadeh, Akram Pourshams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Oncology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/738915