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Down There: Cervical Cancer in PJS: Footnotes
A patient report by Stephanie Sugars

¹A distinct region of chromosome 19p13.3 associated with the sporadic form of adenoma malignum of the uterine cervix. Lee JY, Dong SM, Kim HS, Kim SY, Na EY, Shin MS, Lee SH, Park WS, Kim KM, Lee YS, Jang JJ, Yoo NJ. Cancer research. 1998 Mar 15;58(6):1140-3.
PMID: 9515797.

²Somatic mutations in the STK11/LKB1 gene are uncommon in rare gynecological tumor types associated with Peutz-Jegher's syndrome. Connolly DC, Katabuchi H, Cliby WA, Cho KR. American journal of pathology. 2000 Jan;156(1):339-45.
PMID: 10623683.
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³Mutations in the STK11 Gene Characterize Minimal Deviation Adenocarcinoma of the Uterine Cervix. Kuragaki C, Enomoto T, Ueno Y, Sun H, Fujita M, Nakashima R, Ueda Y, Wada H, Murata Y, Toki T, Konishi I, Fujii S. Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology. 2003 Jan;83(1):35-45.
PMID: 12533684.

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