p53 polymorphisms: cancer implications

C Whibley, PDP Pharoah, M Hollstein - Nature reviews cancer, 2009 - nature.com
The normal functioning of p53 is a potent barrier to cancer. Tumour-associated mutations in
TP53, typically single nucleotide substitutions in the coding sequence, are a hallmark of …

Shaping genetic alterations in human cancer: the p53 mutation paradigm

T Soussi, KG Wiman - Cancer cell, 2007 - cell.com
p53 mutations are found in 50% of human cancers. Molecular epidemiology has shown
strong correlations between the spectrum of p53 mutations and exposure to exogenous …

Cancer incidence in patients with schizophrenia and their first‐degree relatives–a meta‐analysis

VS Catts, SV Catts, BI O'toole… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: Controversy concerning cancer incidence in schizophrenia exists because of
heterogeneous study findings. Method: A meta‐analysis was performed on standardized …

Serious obstetric complications interact with hypoxia-regulated/vascular-expression genes to influence schizophrenia risk

KK Nicodemus, S Marenco, AJ Batten… - Molecular …, 2008 - nature.com
The etiology of schizophrenia is thought to include both epistasis and gene-environment
interactions. We sought to test whether a set of schizophrenia candidate genes regulated by …

Genetic variation in AKT1 is linked to dopamine-associated prefrontal cortical structure and function in humans

HY Tan, KK Nicodemus, Q Chen, Z Li… - The Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Clin Investig
AKT1-dependent molecular pathways control diverse aspects of cellular development and
adaptation, including interactions with neuronal dopaminergic signaling. If AKT1 has an …

AKT1 is associated with schizophrenia across multiple symptom dimensions in the Irish study of high density schizophrenia families

DL Thiselton, VI Vladimirov, PH Kuo, J McClay… - Biological …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-AKT signal transduction pathway
is critical to cell growth and survival. In vitro functional studies indicate that the candidate …

Genetic modifiers of the p53 pathway

S Basu, ME Murphy - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The tumor suppressor gene TP53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer; this
gene is subject to inactivation by mutation or deletion in> 50% of sporadic cancers. Genes …

MDM2 SNP309 and cancer risk: a combined analysis

S Wilkening, JL Bermejo, K Hemminki - Carcinogenesis, 2007 - academic.oup.com
A paper by Bond et al. reported that a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the intronic
promoter region of the mouse double minute 2 (MDM2) gene (called SNP309) can …

Associations between single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the PI3K–PTEN–AKT–mTOR pathway and increased risk of brain metastasis in patients with non–small cell …

Q Li, J Yang, Q Yu, H Wu, B Liu, H Xiong, G Hu… - Clinical Cancer …, 2013 - AACR
Purpose: Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) metastasizes fairly often to the brain, but
identifying which patients will develop brain metastases is problematic. The …

DRD2/AKT1 interaction on D2 c-AMP independent signaling, attentional processing, and response to olanzapine treatment in schizophrenia

G Blasi, F Napolitano, G Ursini… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The D2/AKT1/GSK-3β signaling pathway has been involved in the downstream intracellular
effects of dopamine, in the pathophysiology of cognitive deficits and related brain activity in …