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Tongue cancer patients have a high frequency of allelic loss at the von Hippel-Lindau gene and other loci on 3p.
Cancer - 1 Feb 2008
Asakawa Takeshi, Esumi Mariko, Endo Sohei, Kida Akinori, Ikeda Minoru
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Although genetic abnormalities on 3p have been suggested to be linked to the development of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, to the authors' knowledge no study to date has examined such genetic abnormalities in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. In the current study, loss of heterozygosity (LOH) was evaluated at several loci within 3p, including the von Hippel-Lindau...
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