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Renal cell carcinoma development in the rat independent of alterations at the VHL gene locus.
Molecular carcinogenesis - 1 Feb 1996
Walker C, Ahn Y T, Everitt J, Yuan X
Abstract excerpt
Germline alterations of the human von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene predispose to renal cell carcinoma and a constellation of other tumor types found in VHL disease. This gene is also mutated or deleted in a high proportion of sporadic nonpapillary renal cell carcinomas. In the Eker rat model, spontaneous renal cell carcinoma develops with a high frequency. We therefore investigated the role of this...
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