Preferential loss of the nonimprinted allele for the ZAC1 tumor suppressor gene in human capillary hemangioblastoma.

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Capillary hemangioblastomas (CHBs) are vascular, usually benign, tumors of the CNS, occurring either as a component of familial von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease or as a sporadic entity. Both familial and sporadic forms of VHL-associated tumors involve inactivation of the VHL gene; for CHB, 20% to 50% of sporadic cases are affected. However, other molecular alterations involved in the pathogenesis of sporadic CHBs,...

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