[We have previously demonstrated that messenger RNA from tumor growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) and its receptor, the epidermal growth factor (EGFR), is unregulated in tumors and histologically normal mucosal samples from patients with SCCHN compared with control normal mucosa from patients without cancer, implicating this ligand-receptor pair in an autocrine growth pathway early in the molecular pathogenesis of this disease.]. 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