Article
Anaplastic Wilms' tumour, a subtype displaying poor prognosis, harbours p53 gene mutations.
Nature genetics - 1 May 1994
Bardeesy N, Falkoff D, Petruzzi M J, Nowak N, Zabel B, Adam M, Aguiar M C, Grundy P, Shows T, Pelletier J
Abstract excerpt
The genetics of Wilms' tumour (WT), a paediatric malignancy of the kidney, is complex. Inactivation of the tumour suppressor gene, WT1, is associated with tumour aetiology in approximately 10-15% of WTs. Chromosome 17p changes have been noted in cytogenetic studies of WTs, prompting us to screen...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cell Differentiation
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Kidney Neoplasms
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neoplasm Proteins
- Nuclear Proteins
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Prognosis
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2
