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Renal carcinogenesis: genotype, phenotype and dramatype.
Cancer science - 1 Feb 2003
Hino Okio, Kobayashi Toshiyuki, Momose Shuji, Kikuchi Yasushi, Adachi Hiroyuki, Okimoto Kazuo
Abstract excerpt
Cancer is a heritable disorder of somatic cells. Environment and heredity are both important in the carcinogenic process. The Eker rat model of hereditary renal carcinoma (RC) is an example of a Mendelian dominantly inherited predisposition to a specific cancer in an experimental animal. Forty years after the discovery of the Eker rat in Oslo, we and Knudson's group independently identified a germline...
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