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Frequent allelic deletion at a novel locus on chromosome 5 in human lung cancer.
Cancer research - 1 Apr 1994
Wieland I, Böhm M
Abstract excerpt
Frequent allelic deletions in tumor cells are indicative of the inactivation of tumor suppressor genes. Recently, we isolated the single-copy sequence del-27 (I. Wieland, M. Böhm, and S. Bogatz, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 89: 9705-9709, 1992). Here we show that del-27 detects a restriction fragment length polymorphism that allows examination for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in tumor specimens. LOH at the del-27...
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