INT315882
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Key: | Protein | Mutation | Event | Anatomy | Negation | Speculation | Pain term | Disease term |
PTEN (the lipid phosphatase and tensin homolog) is a key tumor suppressor that normally regulates the activation of PI3K.66 The loss of PTEN and mutations in PI3K have been proposed to predict resistance to EGFR inhibitors, however, this is preliminary and no definite conclusions can be derived.64
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These changes mitigate the effect of PTEN loss on the PI3K/AKT pathway and suggest that the loss of PTEN serves primarily to further activate the RET pathway to drive tumor growth. | |||||||||||||||
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