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Mutations and elevated transcriptional activity of conductin (AXIN2) in hepatoblastomas.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Dec 2004
Koch Arend, Weber Nina, Waha Andreas, Hartmann Wolfgang, Denkhaus Dorota, Behrens Jürgen, Birchmeier Walter, von Schweinitz Dietrich, Pietsch Torsten
Abstract excerpt
Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most frequent malignant liver tumour of childhood. Most HBs develop sporadically but their incidence is highly elevated in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis coli (FAP). These patients carry germline mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumour suppressor gene. APC forms a multi-protein complex involved in the WNT signalling pathway that controls the stability of...
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