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Mitochondrial D-loop mutations as clonal markers in multicentric hepatocellular carcinoma and plasma.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Feb 2002
Nomoto Shuji, Yamashita Katsuya, Koshikawa Katsumi, Nakao Akimasa, Sidransky David
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PURPOSE: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly malignant tumor prone to multicentric occurrence. Differentiation between a true relapse of HCC and a second primary tumor is of clinical importance. We sought to identify mitochondrial mutations in HCC and test their use as clonal markers in this disease. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Primary HCC tissue samples were obtained from 19 patients and analyzed for mutations...
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