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 PIK3CA 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 Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.D. Castillo at University College London in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Somatic activating mutations in Pik3ca 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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