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Next to be described was the Wilms tumor gene,
WT1. The search for this tumor-suppressor gene was facilitated by a survey
that Bob Miller and I carried out on Wilms tumor, which uncovered a pattern
of malformations featuring congenital aniridia or absence of the iris. This
tumor-malformation syndrome was subsequently linked to a chromosome deletion
that helped others to localize and identify the Wilms tumor gene. |