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Genetics of renal-cell carcinoma and evidence for a critical role for von Hippel-Lindau in renal tumorigenesis.
Seminars in oncology - 1 Feb 1995
Gnarra J R, Lerman M I, Zbar B, Linehan W M
Abstract excerpt
Using a genetic linkage-based positional cloning approach the VHL gene was identified at chromosome 3p25.5. VHL is mutated in the germlines of affected individuals, and in VHL-associated tumors the mutation is almost always exposed by virtue of chromosomal deletion of the inherited wild-type allele. VHL is also frequently mutated in sporadic, nonpapillary RCC and in familial RCC. This was predicted because such...
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