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Evidence suggests that expression of the MDR1 gene in human tumors is associated with malignancy in a tissue-dependent fashion (pages 447–450).

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Baldini, N. Multidrug resistance — a multiplex phenomenon. Nat Med 3, 378–380 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0497-378

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