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Rhabdomyosarcomas and radiation hypersensitivity in a mouse model of Gorlin syndrome.
Nature medicine - 1 May 1998
Hahn H, Wojnowski L, Zimmer A M, Hall J, Miller G, Zimmer A
Abstract excerpt
Gorlin (or nevoid basal cell carcinoma) syndrome is characterized by a variety of clinical problems including generalized overgrowth of the body, cysts, developmental abnormalities of the skeleton and a predisposition to benign and malignant tumors. The syndrome results from germline mutations of the human homolog of the drosophila segment polarity gene patched (ptc). Here we report that mice heterozygous for ptc...
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