Article
Mutations of the VHL tumour suppressor gene in renal carcinoma.
Nature genetics - 1 May 1994
Gnarra J R, Tory K, Weng Y, Schmidt L, Wei M H, Li H, Latif F, Liu S, Chen F, Duh F M
Abstract excerpt
Multiple, bilateral renal carcinomas are a frequent occurrence in von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. To elucidate the aetiological role of the VHL gene in human kidney tumorigenesis, localized and advanced tumours from 110 patients with sporadic renal carcinoma were analysed for VHL mutations and l...
Topics
- Adenocarcinoma, Clear Cell
- Base Sequence
- Carcinoma
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Humans
- Kidney Neoplasms
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Neoplasms, Second Primary
- Organ Specificity