[Because the FRA3B/FHIT locus at 3p14.2 is a preferential target for genetic changes caused by tobacco smoke, we intended to evaluate the status of the FRA16D/WWOX gene in non-small cell lung cancer; we have analyzed 27 paired normal and tumor lung tissues and 8 lung cancer cell lines for WWOX alterations by reverse transcriptase-PCR, loss of heterozygosity, and mutation analysis.]. 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