[Mutations of p53 are clearly involved in the pathogenesis of Barrett's cancer for a subset of patients (46%), and the fact that we could detect mutations in premalignant Barrett's epithelium supports the hypothesis that p53 mutations may be a useful marker for patients at increased risk for development of invasive cancer.]. 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