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Chromosome 16 Loss of Heterozygosity in Tuberous Sclerosis and Sporadic Lymphangiomyomatosis
1 Oct 2001
Abstract excerpt
In previous work we found loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of the wild-type TSC2 allele in the abnormal pulmonary smooth muscle cells and renal angiomyolipoma cells from patients with sporadic pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis (LAM). Here we report TSC2 LOH in microdissected pulmonary LAM cells from a patient with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), demonstrating for the first time that the two-hit tumor suppressor gene...
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