## Abstract The childhood eye cancer retinoblastoma is initiated by the loss of both alleles of the prototypic tumor suppressor gene, __RB1__. However, a large number of cytogenetic and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) studies have shown that these M1 and M2 mutational eventsβalthough necess
?Two Hits? in utero?
β Scribed by Culic, Vida ;Culic, Srdjana ;Reisic, Biserka
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 45 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-1532
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