[We exploited a fortuitous experiment of nature to directly test this hypothesis: the TGF-beta type II receptor gene is inactivated by mutation in nearly all colorectal carcinomas having microsatellite instability, as seen in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) and in sporadic medullary colorectal cancers.]. 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