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Novel homozygous VHL mutation in exon 2 is associated with congenital polycythemia but not with cancer.
Blood - 9 May 2013
Lanikova Lucie, Lorenzo Felipe, Yang Chunzhang, Vankayalapati Hari, Drachtman Richard, Divoky Vladimir, Prchal Josef T
Abstract excerpt
Germline von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene mutations underlie dominantly inherited familial VHL tumor syndrome comprising a predisposition for renal cell carcinoma, pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma, cerebral hemangioblastoma, and endolymphatic sac tumors. However, recessively inherited congenital polycythemia, exemplified by Chuvash polycythemia, has been associated with 2 separate 3' VHL gene mutations in exon 3. It...
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