[Given that Cdx1 has a pro-oncogenic function in vitro, the maintenance of a high level of expression in polyps, and even its overexpression in one-third of the specimens, suggest that this homeobox gene may be an important factor in the process toward malignant transformation during the first steps of tumorigenesis.]. 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