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Nature Genetics 32, 312–315 (1 October 2002) | doi:10.1038/ng1001

Bi-allelic inactivation of TCF1 in hepatic adenomas

Olivier Bluteau , Emmanuelle Jeannot , Paulette Bioulac-Sage , Juan Martin Marqu|[eacute]|s , Jean-Fr|[eacute]|d|[eacute]|ric Blanc , Hung Bui , Jean-Christophe Beaudoin , Dominique Franco , Charles Balabaud , Pierre Laurent-Puig & Jessica Zucman-Rossi

Liver adenomas are benign tumors at risk of malignant transformation. In a genome-wide search for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) associated with liver adenomas, we found a deletion in chromosome 12q in five of ten adenomas.