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The role of tazarotene-induced gene 1 in carcinogenesis: is it a tumor suppressor gene or an oncogene?

CHUN-HUA WANG^1,2, LU-KAI WANG³, RONG-YAUN SHYU⁴, FU-MING TSAI^5,*

1 Department of Dermatology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, 231, Taiwan
2 School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, 970, Taiwan
3 Department of Life Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei, 106, Taiwan
4 Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, The Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, 231, Taiwan
5 Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, 231, Taiwan

* Corresponding Author: FU-MING TSAI. Email: