Mice heterozygous for a mutation at the Nf2 tumor suppressor locus develop a range of highly metastatic tumors.

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Published in Genes Dev on April 15, 1998

Authors

A I McClatchey1, I Saotome, K Mercer, D Crowley, J F Gusella, R T Bronson, T Jacks

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. mcclatch@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

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