Jinghui Zhang1, Claudia A Benavente, Justina McEvoy

  • 1Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA.

Nature
|January 13, 2012
PubMed
まとめ

幼児期の急速な網膜がんであるレチノブラストーマは,RB1遺伝子の喪失から生じる. 腫瘍は安定したゲノムを示しますが,SYKアップレギュレーションのようながん経路における表遺伝的変化は,急速な進行を促します.

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