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Loss of imprinting in hepatoblastoma.
Cancer research - 1 May 1995
Rainier S, Dobry C J, Feinberg A P
Abstract excerpt
We and others have described loss of imprinting (LOI) of the insulin-like growth factor II (IGF2) gene in 70% of Wilms' tumors (WT), an embryonal kidney tumor, and we have also found LOI of the H19 gene in 29% of WTs. In WT, LOI of IGF2 is coupled to down-regulation of H19. LOI of IGF2 has subsequently been described in a second embryonal neoplasm, rhabdomyosarcoma. However, the hypothesis that LOI is a general...
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