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Sources

  • Renal Oncocytoma Versus Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma: Debate Goes On. Mohammed MD Advances in Anatomic Pathology 12(3):152-153, May 2005.
  • Analysis of the Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) tumour suppressor gene in sporadic renal cell carcinoma and colorectal cancer. da Silva NF, Gentle D, Hesson LB, Morton DG, Latif F, Maher ER. J Med Genet 2003 Nov;40(11):820-4.
  • Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome: Clinical and Genetic Studies of 20 Families. Leter EM, Koopmans AK, Gille JJ, van Os TA, Vittoz GG, David EF, Jaspars EH, Postmus PE, van Moorselaar RJ, Craanen ME, Starink TM, Menko FH. J Invest Dermatol. 2008 Jan;128(1):45-9.
  • BHD mutations, clinical and molecular genetic investigations of Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome: A new series of 50 families and a review of published reports. Toro JR, Wei MH, Glenn GM, Weinreich M, Toure O, Vocke C, Turner M, Choyke P, Merino MJ, Pinto PA, Steinberg SM, Schmidt LS, Linehan WM. J Med Genet. 2008 Jun;45(6):321-31.
  • Hereditary kidney cancer: unique opportunity for disease-based therapy. Linehan WM, Pinto PA, Bratslavsky G, Pfaffenroth E, Merino M, Vocke CD, Toro JR, Bottaro D, Neckers L, Schmidt LS, Srinivasan R. Cancer. 2009 May 15;115(10 Suppl):2252-61.
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        • Other Hereditary Kidney Cancer Syndromes
          • Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (VHL)
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          • Chromosome 3 Translocations
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