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A detailed study of loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 17 in tumours from Li-Fraumeni patients carrying a mutation to the TP53 gene.
Oncogene - 20 Feb 1997
Varley J M, Thorncroft M, McGown G, Appleby J, Kelsey A M, Tricker K J, Evans D G, Birch J M
Abstract excerpt
We have studied a total of 36 tumours from 28 patients with germline mutations to the TP53 gene for loss of heterozygosity at TP53 using techniques of both direct sequencing and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. All patients were from families conforming to the definition of classical Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) or were Li-Fraumeni-like (LFL). The data we have obtained show that loss of the...
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