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WT1 and kidney progenitor cells
1 Apr 2010
Abstract excerpt
Kidney development has been studied over the past sixty years as a model of embryonic induction during organogenesis. Wilms' tumor-1 (WT1), that encodes a transcription factor and RNA-binding protein, was one of the first tumor suppressor genes identified, and was soon thereafter shown to be associated with syndromic forms of childhood kidney disease and gonadal dysgenesis. Kidney agenesis, resulting from a null...
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