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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Jeff Klomp
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-21816 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Klomp Jeff A JA Petillo David D Niemi Natalie M NM Dykema Karl J KJ Chen Jindong J Yang Ximing J XJ Sääf Annika A Zickert Peter P Aly Markus M Bergerheim Ulf U Nordenskjöld Magnus M Gad Sophie S Giraud Sophie S Denoux Yves Y Yonneau Laurent L Méjean Arnaud A Vasiliu Viorel V Richard Stéphane S MacKeigan Jeffrey P JP Teh Bin T BT Furge Kyle A KA
BMC medical genomics 20101216
<h4>Background</h4>Germline mutations in the folliculin (FLCN) gene are associated with the development of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS), a disease characterized by papular skin lesions, a high occurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax, and the development of renal neoplasias. The majority of renal tumors that arise in BHDS-affected individuals are histologically similar to sporadic chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and sporadic renal oncocytoma. However, most sporadic tumors lack FLCN mutati ...[more]