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Human pituitary adenomas show no loss of heterozygosity at the retinoblastoma gene locus.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Apr 1994
Zhu J, Leon S P, Beggs A H, Busque L, Gilliland D G, Black P M
Abstract excerpt
The retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene (RB1) is inactivated in hereditary and sporadic forms of retinoblastoma as well as in a number of other sporadic tumors. The majority of human pituitary tumors have been shown to be monoclonal neoplasms, suggesting that 1 or more somatic mutations are involved in the clonal expansion of a single progenitor cell. Recently, a high percentage of transgenic mice containing a...
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