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Somatic inactivation of the VHL gene in Von Hippel-Lindau disease tumors.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Apr 1997
Prowse A H, Webster A R, Richards F M, Richard S, Olschwang S, Resche F, Affara N A, Maher E R
Abstract excerpt
Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a dominantly inherited disorder predisposing to retinal and CNS hemangioblastomas, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), pheochromocytoma, and pancreatic tumors. Interfamilial differences in predisposition to pheochromocytoma reflect allelic heterogeneity such that there is a strong association between missense mutations and risk of pheochromocytoma. We investigated the mechanism of...
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