[The frequency of the ALK rearrangement in patients with NSCLC is reported to be 4-7%, and the rearrangement is frequently observed in relatively younger patients, non- or light smokers and those with adenocarcinoma histology without other genetic disorders, such as mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor gene.]. 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