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An 11-bp duplication in the promoter region of the VHL gene in a patient with cerebellar hemangioblastoma and renal oncocytoma.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2007
Muscarella Lucia Anna, Barbano Raffaela, Augello Bartolomeo, Formica Vincenza, Micale Lucia, Zelante Leopoldo, D'Agruma Leonardo, Merla Giuseppe
Abstract excerpt
Central nervous system hemangioblastomas are benign vascular tumours that may present sporadically or as manifestation of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. VHL Syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized, besides hemangioblastomas, by susceptibility to multifocal and bilateral renal cell carcinoma and cysts, retinal angiomas, pheochromocytoma, epididymis cystoadenoma, pancreatic cysts and/or...
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