Clonality and loss of heterozygosity of WT genes are early events in the pathogenesis of nephroblastomas

Human Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 278-281

  Guertl, Barbara ^b   Ratschek, Manfred ^b   Harms, Dieter ^b   Jaenig, Ute ^b   Leuschner, Ivo ^b   Poremba, Christopher ^b   Hoefler, Gerald ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Clonality; Human androgen receptor gene; Loss of heterozygosity; Nephrogenic rest; Wilms' tumor gene

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADENOMA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 11P; CHROMOSOME 16P; CLONAL VARIATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; INFANT; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PATHOGENESIS; RECEPTOR GENE; WT1 GENE; WT2 GENE; WT3 GENE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 0037345345     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/hupa.2003.32     Document Type: Article

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