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Delayed development of retinoblastoma associated with loss of a maternal allele on chromosome 13.
International journal of cancer - 20 Feb 1995
Kato M V, Ishizaki K, Shimizu T, Toguchida J, Kaneko A, Sasaki M S
Abstract excerpt
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on chromosome 13, which is associated with the functional inactivation of the retinoblastoma (RB) gene, is critical for the development of RB. To date, we have found that LOH-negative tumors develop earlier than LOH-positive tumors in hereditary cases of RB, an observation which suggests that loss of one allele on chromosome 13 may be disadvantageous with respect to growth of RB...
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