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Comprehensive mutational analysis of the VHL gene in sporadic renal cell carcinoma: relationship to clinicopathological parameters.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 May 2002
Kondo Keiichi, Yao Masahiro, Yoshida Minoru, Kishida Takeshi, Shuin Taro, Miura Takeshi, Moriyama Masatoshi, Kobayashi Kazuki, Sakai Naoki, Kaneko Shigeki, Kawakami Satoshi, Baba Masaya, Nakaigawa Noboru, Nagashima Yoji, Nakatani Yukio, Hosaka Masahiko
Abstract excerpt
To delineate more precisely the somatic von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) gene alteration as well as to elucidate its etiologic role in renal tumorigenesis, we examined a total of 240 sporadic renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) for somatic VHL gene alterations by DNA-SSCP followed by sequencing, methylation-specific PCR assay, microsatellite LOH study, and Southern blot analysis. Intragenic mutation of the VHL gene was...
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