Cancer Gene Drives Vascular Disorder (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Cancer Gene Drives Vascular Disorder (1 of 2)

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Patients with <i>PIK3CA</i> mutations showing venous malformations in the lower lip and tongue (A) and in the left hand (B). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 30 March 2016, issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.D. Castillo at University College London in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Somatic activating mutations in <i>Pik3ca</i> cause sporadic venous malformations in mice and humans."

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S. Castillo <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)

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