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Loss of heterozygosity in Wilms' tumour involves two distinct regions of chromosome 11.
Oncogene - 1 Jun 1990
Wadey R B, Pal N, Buckle B, Yeomans E, Pritchard J, Cowell J K
Abstract excerpt
Pairs of tumour and normal DNA samples from 38 Wilms' tumour patients have been investigated for loss of heterozygosity using 12 probes from chromosome 11. Allele loss was detected in only 11 cases (31%). Densitometric analysis showed that allele loss was not due to non-disjunction or hemizygous deletion, but rather to mitotic recombination or non-disjunction plus reduplication. Although the development of...
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