β-catenin activation in a novel liver progenitor cell type is sufficient to cause hepatocellular carcinoma and hepatoblastoma.

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Published in Cancer Res on May 21, 2014

Authors

Sharada Mokkapati1, Katharina Niopek1, Le Huang2, Kegan J Cunniff1, E Cristy Ruteshouser1, Mark deCaestecker3, Milton J Finegold4, Vicki Huff5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Graduate Program in.
2: Department of Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Graduate Program in Genes and Development and.
3: Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
4: Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas; and.
5: Department of Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Graduate Program in Genes and Development and Human Molecular Genetics, UT-Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; vhuff@mdanderson.org.

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