Genetics and molecular biology

Genet Mol Biol · ISSN (print) 1415-4757 · 3 papers in corpus
2026
doi:10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2025-0191 ·PMID:41915403

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…

other 2023
doi:10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2023-0117 ·PMID:38047750

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…

2012
doi:10.1590/s1415-47572012000600008 ·PMID:23412905

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…