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EGFR regulation by microRNA in lung cancer: a rose by any other name ... is an increasingly complicated rose
The Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, Division of Hematology and Oncology and Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Since it was first described 40 years ago, the epidermal growth factor (EGF) and its receptor (EGFR) has become one of the most studied entities in all human biology [1, 2]. The potent role of EGF in transforming normal cells into tumors was an early observation with specific implications for lung cancer clear by the early 1980s [3, 4]. In 1980, the gene was localized to chromosome 7, opening the door for consideration of the complex set of genetic aberrations now described for the EGFR locus [5]. In the intervening quarter century, many downstream regulatory and signaling events have been reported, most
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