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Clinical relevance of mutations in the Wilms tumor suppressor 1 gene WT1 and the cadherin-associated protein β1 gene CTNNB1 for patients with Wilms tumors†

Results of long-term surveillance of 71 patients from International Society of Pediatric Oncology Study 9/Society for Pediatric Oncology

  1. Brigitte Royer-Pokora PhD1,‡,*,
  2. Angela Weirich MD2,
  3. Valerie Schumacher PhD1,
  4. Constanze Uschkereit MS1,
  5. Manfred Beier BE1,
  6. Ivo Leuschner MD3,
  7. Norbert Graf MD4,
  8. Frank Autschbach MD5,
  9. Dominique Schneider MD6,
  10. Melissa von Harrach MS1

Article first published online: 10 JUL 2008

DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23672

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Cancer

Cancer

Volume 113, Issue 5, pages 1080–1089, 1 September 2008

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Royer-Pokora, B., Weirich, A., Schumacher, V., Uschkereit, C., Beier, M., Leuschner, I., Graf, N., Autschbach, F., Schneider, D. and von Harrach, M. (2008), Clinical relevance of mutations in the Wilms tumor suppressor 1 gene WT1 and the cadherin-associated protein β1 gene CTNNB1 for patients with Wilms tumors. Cancer, 113: 1080–1089. doi: 10.1002/cncr.23672

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  1. 1

    Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

  2. 2

    Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Children's Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  3. 3

    Institute of Pediatric Pathology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  4. 4

    Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Children's Hospital, University of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany

  5. 5

    Department of General Pathology, Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  6. 6

    Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Children's Hospital, Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

  1. ‡

    Fax: (011) 49 211 8112538;

*Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Postfach 101007, D40001 Duesseldorf, Germany

  1. †

    See editorial on pages 893-6, this issue.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 20 AUG 2008
  2. Article first published online: 10 JUL 2008
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 13 FEB 2008
  4. Manuscript Revised: 11 FEB 2008
  5. Manuscript Received: 10 OCT 2007

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  • Elterninitiative Kinderkrebsklinik e.V., Duesseldorf

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