[Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) disease is associated with an increased incidence of leukemias and the NF1 gene product acts as a negative regulator of the product of RAS genes which are often activated in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) through point mutations.]. 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