Novel regions of chromosomal loss in familial neuroblastoma by comparative genomic hybridization

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Childhood neuroblastoma, an embryonal neoplasm of sympathetic nervous system progenitors, occurs in a familial form with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. Genetic susceptibility to this disorder is thought to arise via a germline mutation affecting a tumor suppressor gene, in accord with the two-hit model established for familial and sporadic retinoblastoma. Surprisingly, the familial neuroblastoma...

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