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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Holla VR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5171696 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies 20170101 1
The anaplastic lymphoma kinase (<i>ALK</i>) gene plays an important physiologic role in the development of the brain and can be oncogenically altered in several malignancies, including non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and anaplastic large cell lymphomas (ALCL). Most prevalent <i>ALK</i> alterations are chromosomal rearrangements resulting in fusion genes, as seen in ALCL and NSCLC. In other tumors, <i>ALK</i> copy-number gains and activating <i>ALK</i> mutations have been described. Dramatic a ...[more]