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  • Genes and genetic elements associated with control of neoplastic transformation in mammalian cells
    Patent number: 6197521
    Abstract: The invention provides genetic suppressor elements that confer the transformed phenotype of malignant mammalian cells upon untransformed cells, methods for identifying and obtaining such elements, methods for isolating and identifying genes corresponding to such elements, and methods of using such elements. The invention also provides genes corresponding to the GSEs of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: University of Illinois
    Inventors: Andrei Gudkov, Alexander Kazarov, Ilya Mazo, Igor B. Roninson