Nature Medicine
3, 499 - 500 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0597-499
Cleaning up on  -cateninYusuke NakamuraLaboratory of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan Inactivation of the APC tumor suppressor gene in melanoma and colon cancer results in increased transcriptional activity mediated by  -catenin.
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