[Because GKN1 possesses some mitogenic effects on intestinal epithelial cells (IEC-6) whereas this protein was also capable of inhibiting proliferation in gastric cancer cells (MKN28), we decided to study its involvement in apoptosis to understand the role of GKN1 in the modulation of inflammatory damage or tumorigenesis in gastric mucosa.]. 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