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Somatic mutations of the APC gene in sporadic hepatoblastomas.
Cancer research - 15 Jul 1996
Oda H, Imai Y, Nakatsuru Y, Hata J, Ishikawa T
Abstract excerpt
Hepatoblastoma is a rare hepatic malignancy that occurs in children with an average age of 2 or 3 years and is known to be one of the extracolonic manifestations of familial adenomatous polyposis. Only a single hepatoblastoma with a germ-line mutation of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene has been reported thus far. To elucidate the possible roles of APC gene alterations in sporadic hepatoblastomas, we...
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