[In type I endometrioid endometrial cancer, PTEN gene silencing in conjunction with defects in DNA mismatch repair genes, as evidenced by the microsatellite instability phenotype, or mutations in the K-ras and/or beta-catenin genes, are recognized major alterations, which define the progression of the normal endometrium to hyperplasia, to endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia, and then on to carcinoma.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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