[These include inheritance of one mutated retinoblastoma susceptibility (RB) allele as the origin of hereditary retinoblastoma, subsequent loss of the remaining allele upon the genesis of the tumour, the involvement of the same RB gene in both sporadic and hereditary retinoblastoma, the somatic mutation of both RB alleles in sporadic retinoblastoma, the lack of evidence for expression of a normal RB gene product in any retinoblastoma yet examined, the inactivational nature of RB mutations and the recessiveness of these mutated alleles.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE