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Novel somatic mutations in the VHL gene in Swedish archived sporadic renal cell carcinomas.
Cancer letters - 1 Jul 1999
Yang K, Lindblad P, Egevad L, Hemminki K
Abstract excerpt
Frequent loss-of-function somatic mutations of the VHL gene have been detected in sporadic renal cell carcinoma (RCC), indicating that inactivation of the VHL gene plays a critical role in RCC. In this study, we collected 35 archived Swedish sporadic RCCs identified from an epidemiological study on occupational exposure and kidney cancer to test how well stored pathological specimens could be retrieved and...
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