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The unexpected landscape of in vivo somatic mutation in a human epithelial cell lineage.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Feb 2002
Colgin Lorel M, Hackmann Alden F M, Emond Mary J, Monnat Raymond J
Abstract excerpt
Few data exist on somatic mutation in the epithelial cell lineages that play a central role in human biology and disease. To delineate the "landscape" of somatic mutation in a human epithelial cell lineage, we determined the frequency and molecular nature of somatic mutations occurring in vivo in the X-linked HPRT gene of kidney tubular epithelial cells. Kidney epithelial mutants were frequent (range 0.5 to 4.2 x...
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