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Genomic imprinting and Wilms' tumor.
Medical and pediatric oncology - 1 Nov 1996
Moulton T, Chung W Y, Yuan L, Hensle T, Waber P, Nisen P, Tycko B
Abstract excerpt
The selective loss of maternal and reduplication of paternal chromosome 11p15.5 alleles in Wilms' tumors (WTs) points to the existence of a paternally imprinted tumor suppressor gene(s) and/or a maternally imprinted dose-dependent growth-promoting gene(s) in this chromosomal region. Two reciprocally imprinted chromosome 11p15.5 genes, H19, a candidate tumor suppressor gene, and IGF2, a candidate dominant...
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