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Familial Non-VHL Clear Cell (Conventional) Renal Cell Carcinoma: Clinical Features, Segregation Analysis, and Mutation Analysis of FLCN
14 Sept 2008
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PURPOSE: Familial renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is genetically heterogeneous. The most common histopathologic subtype of sporadic and familial RCC is clear cell (cRCC) and von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is the most common cause of inherited cRCC. Familial cRCC may also be associated with chromosome 3 translocations and has recently been described in patients with Birt-Hogg-Dube (BHD) syndrome, caused by germline...
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