Genetics and molecular biology
Genet Mol Biol
· ISSN (print) 1415-4757
· 3 papers in corpus
Cervical cancer is one of the most common types of carcinomas causing morbidity and mortality in women worldwide, primarily caused by high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV). However, some cervical tumors, particularly adenocarcinomas, may d…
Mucolipidosis II and III (MLII and MLIII) are autosomal recessive diseases caused by pathogenic variants in GNPTAB and GNPTG genes that lead to defects in GlcNAc-1-phosphotransferase. This enzyme adds mannose 6-phosphate residues to lysosom…
The TP53 gene, first described in 1979, was identified as a tumor suppressor gene in 1989, when it became clear that its product, the p53 nuclear phosphoprotein, was frequently inactivated in many different forms of cancers. Nicknamed "guar…