[Because intestinal carcinomas have been observed to develop in association with PJS, we analyzed tumors from 71 patients for allelic deletions (loss of heterozygosity) and STK11 gene mutations, to elucidate the etiological role of STK11 gene in sporadic colorectal 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