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Array CGH Analysis of Paired Blood and Tumor Samples from Patients with Sporadic Wilms Tumor.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Cabral de Almeida Cardoso Leila, Rodriguez-Laguna Lara, Del Carmen Crespo María, Vallespín Elena, Palomares-Bralo María, Martin-Arenas Rubén, Rueda-Arenas Inmaculada, Silvestre de Faria Paulo Antonio, García-Miguel Purificación, Lapunzina Pablo, Regla Vargas Fernando, Seuanez Hector N, Martínez-Glez Víctor
Abstract excerpt
Wilms tumor (WT), the most common cancer of the kidney in infants and children, has a complex etiology that is still poorly understood. Identification of genomic copy number variants (CNV) in tumor genomes provides a better understanding of cancer development which may be useful for diagnosis and therapeutic targets. In paired blood and tumor DNA samples from 14 patients with sporadic WT, analyzed by aCGH, 22% of...
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