Genes, chromosomes, and rhabdomyosarcoma
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John Anderson; Anthony Gordon; Kathy Pritchard-Jones; Janet Shipley
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Rhabdomyosarcomas are a heterogeneous group of malignant tumors and are the most common soft-tissue sarcoma of childhood. Rhabdomyosarcomas resemble developing skeletal muscle, notably in their expression of the MRF family of transcription factors and the PAX3 and PAX7 genes. These PAX genes are als