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Induction of hepatocellular carcinoma by in vivo gene targeting.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Jul 2012
Wang Pei-Rong, Xu Mei, Toffanin Sara, Li Yi, Llovet Josep M, Russell David W
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The distinct phenotypic and prognostic subclasses of human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are difficult to reproduce in animal experiments. Here we have used in vivo gene targeting to insert an enhancer-promoter element at an imprinted chromosome 12 locus in mice, thereby converting ∼1 in 20,000 normal hepatocytes into a focus of HCC with a single genetic modification. A 300-kb chromosomal domain containing...
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