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Cigarette smoking, von Hippel-Lindau gene mutations and sporadic renal cell carcinoma.
British journal of cancer - 7 Aug 2006
van Dijk B A C, Schouten L J, Oosterwijk E, Hulsbergen-van de Kaa C A, Kiemeney L A L M, Goldbohm R A, Schalken J A, van den Brandt P A
Abstract excerpt
We investigated whether smoking is associated with mutations in the Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene in 337 cases of sporadic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) among 120 852 people followed for 11.3 years; the findings suggest that smoking causes RCC independently of VHL gene mutations.
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