Nature Medicine
4, 559 - 560 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0598-559
Glimpsing the cause of rhabdomyosarcomaShili Zhan
& Lee J. HelmanPediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, 10 Center Drive, Building 10, Room 13N240, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1928, USA. Email: helmanl@pbmac.nci.nih.gov A mouse model of Gorlin's syndrome implicates mutations in patched and upregulation of insulin growth factor 2 in the etiology of rhabdomyosarcoma (pages 619−622). REFERENCES
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