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Clinical and molecular characteristics of East Asian patients with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome.
Chinese journal of cancer - 15 Aug 2016
Wong Meihua, Chu Ying-Hsia, Tan Hwei Ling, Bessho Hideharu, Ngeow Joanne, Tang Tiffany, Tan Min-Han
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BACKGROUND: Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome is a dominantly inherited multisystem cancer syndrome caused by a heterozygous mutation in the VHL tumor suppressor gene. Previous studies suggested that similar populations of Caucasian and Japanese patients have similar genotype or phenotype characteristics. In this comprehensive study of East Asian patients, we investigated the genetic and clinical characteristics...
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