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Identification of a mesothelioma phenotype.
Respiratory medicine - 1 Mar 2007
Ohar Jill A, Ampleford Elizabeth J, Howard Suzanne E, Sterling David A
Abstract excerpt
Despite the strong association of asbestos exposure to mesothelioma, only a fraction of persons exposed develop this neoplasm which is characterized by long latency and shortened survival. Familial clustering implicates both exposure and genetic predisposition as causative, but a biologically relevant mesothelioma phenotype essential to genetic analysis has not been defined. To identify a more extensive set of...
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