[The homozygous co-deletion of MTAP, encoding the enzyme methylthioadenosine phosphorylase, in approximately 90% of mesotheliomas with P16/CDKN2A loss has potential therapeutic applications because MTAP-deficient tumors may be responsive to inhibitors of de novo AMP synthesis.]. 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