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Editorial
. 2018 Oct;7(5):403-405.
doi: 10.21037/hbsn.2018.07.03.

Increased mutant KRAS gene dosage drives pancreatic cancer progression: evidence for wild-type KRAS as a tumor suppressor?

Oliver A Kent  1
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Editorial

Increased mutant KRAS gene dosage drives pancreatic cancer progression: evidence for wild-type KRAS as a tumor suppressor?

Oliver A Kent. Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2018 Oct.
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Conflicts of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

Comment on

  • Evolutionary routes and KRAS dosage define pancreatic cancer phenotypes.
    Mueller S, Engleitner T, Maresch R, Zukowska M, Lange S, Kaltenbacher T, Konukiewitz B, Öllinger R, Zwiebel M, Strong A, Yen HY, Banerjee R, Louzada S, Fu B, Seidler B, Götzfried J, Schuck K, Hassan Z, Arbeiter A, Schönhuber N, Klein S, Veltkamp C, Friedrich M, Rad L, Barenboim M, Ziegenhain C, Hess J, Dovey OM, Eser S, Parekh S, Constantino-Casas F, de la Rosa J, Sierra MI, Fraga M, Mayerle J, Klöppel G, Cadiñanos J, Liu P, Vassiliou G, Weichert W, Steiger K, Enard W, Schmid RM, Yang F, Unger K, Schneider G, Varela I, Bradley A, Saur D, Rad R. Mueller S, et al. Nature. 2018 Feb 1;554(7690):62-68. doi: 10.1038/nature25459. Epub 2018 Jan 24. Nature. 2018. PMID: 29364867 Free PMC article.

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