Inactivation of WT1 in nephrogenic rests, genetic precursors to Wilms’ tumour

Nature Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 363-367

  Park, Seon ^a   Bernard, Amy ^a   Bove, Kevin E ^b   Sens, Donald A ^c   Hazen Martin, Debra J ^c   Garvin, A Julian ^c   Haber, Daniel A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEPHROBLASTOMA; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027379032     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1293-363     Document Type: Article

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