Article
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...
Topics
- Adenoma
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7
- Gene Dosage
- Germ-Line Mutation
- Humans
- Kidney Neoplasms
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Molecular Sequence Data
