[The EGF family growth factor HB-EGF is synthesized in cancer cells and plays pivotal roles in oncogenic transformation and tumor progression, but the contribution of HB-EGF expressed in tumor stromal cells to tumor growth remains unclear.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE