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SUBMITTER: Phillips CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2915901 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Phillips Christine L CL Gerbing Robert R Alonzo Todd T Perentesis John P JP Harley Isaac T W IT Meshinchi Soheil S Bhatla Deepika D Radloff Gretchen G Davies Stella M SM
Pediatric blood & cancer 20100801 2
<h4>Background</h4>The variant polymorphism in the gene MDM2, SNP309, leads to increased level of mdm2 protein and subsequent downregulation of p53 tumor suppressor pathway. Presence of this single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) has been associated with earlier tumorigenesis in patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, as well as decreased survival in patients with CLL. In addition, cells homozygous (G/G) for SNP 309 were found to have 10-fold increase resistance to topoisomerase II inhibitors in vitro ...[more]