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SUBMITTER: Grampp S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5536434 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grampp Steffen S Schmid Virginia V Salama Rafik R Lauer Victoria V Kranz Franziska F Platt James L JL Smythies James J Choudhry Hani H Goppelt-Struebe Margarete M Ratcliffe Peter J PJ Mole David R DR Schödel Johannes J
PLoS genetics 20170717 7
Un-physiological activation of hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) is an early event in most renal cell cancers (RCC) following inactivation of the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor. Despite intense study, how this impinges on cancer development is incompletely understood. To test for the impact of genetic signals on this pathway, we aligned human RCC-susceptibility polymorphisms with genome-wide assays of HIF-binding and observed highly significant overlap. Allele-specific assays of HIF binding, ch ...[more]