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Preferential loss of maternal alleles in sporadic Wilms' tumour.
Oncogene - 1 Nov 1990
Pal N, Wadey R B, Buckle B, Yeomans E, Pritchard J, Cowell J K
Abstract excerpt
Loss of heterozygosity at loci on the short arm of chromosome 11 has been reported in 31% (11/38) of Wilms' tumours in our series. Lymphoblastoid cell lines were prepared from the parents of 10/11 of the patients showing allele loss in their tumours. In 9 of the cases, where the parental origin of the alleles could be followed, it was the paternal alleles which were retained in the tumour. This preferential loss...
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