[These data provide the first evidence that HGF stimulates 5alpha-R1 expression through up-regulation of the transcription factor Egr-1, thus suggesting the possibility that regulation of steroid metabolism by HGF represents a mechanism for high risk of hepatocellular carcinogenesis in males.]. 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