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Molecular bases for hereditary cancer-prone diseases.
The Journal of dermatology - 1 Nov 1992
Tatsumi K, Tachibana A, Fujimori A
Abstract excerpt
Constitutional loss or inactivation of one copy of a tumor-suppressor gene, as exemplified by hereditary retinoblastoma, increases the propensity for malignancies by reducing the number of events necessary for the complete loss of the negative regulatory function. We developed a selectable mutation assay employing a human lymphoblastoid cell line (LCL) derived from a heterozygous carrier of 2,8-dihydroxyadenine...
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