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Duplication and overexpression of the mutant allele of the MET proto-oncogene in multiple hereditary papillary renal cell tumours.
Oncogene - 13 Aug 1998
Fischer J, Palmedo G, von Knobloch R, Bugert P, Prayer-Galetti T, Pagano F, Kovacs G
Abstract excerpt
Previous karyotyping showed a combined trisomy of chromosome 7 and 17 in sporadic and hereditary papillary renal cell tumours (RCT). A recent molecular analysis revealed a mutation in the MET tyrosine kinase (chromosome 7q31) in the germline of four out of seven families with hereditary papillary RCT (HPRCT). We have analysed germline cells as well as multiple tumours obtained from HPRCT families and sporadic...
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