[Studies of the molecular genetics of colon cancer have identified acquired alterations in oncogenes such as the K-ras gene and in putative tumor suppressor genes such as the FAP gene on chromosome 5, the p53 gene on chromosome 17, and the DCC gene on chromosome 18, which appear to mediate important steps in the adenoma-dysplasia-carcinoma sequence.]. 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