Article
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 alle...
Topics
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3
- DNA, Complementary
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Kidney Neoplasms
- Mutation
- von Hippel-Lindau Disease
