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An analysis of phenotypic variation in the familial cancer syndrome von Hippel-Lindau disease: evidence for modifier effects.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Oct 1998
Webster A R, Richards F M, MacRonald F E, Moore A T, Maher E R
Abstract excerpt
von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) is a dominantly inherited familial cancer syndrome predisposing to ocular and CNS hemangioblastomas, renal-cell carcinoma (RCC), and pheochromocytoma. Both interfamilial and intrafamilial variability in expression is well recognized. Interfamilial differences in pheochromocytoma susceptibility have been attributed to allelic heterogeneity such that specific missense germ-line...
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