mortality/aging
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• premature death is associated with early onset spontaneous tumor formation
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neoplasm
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• mice develop highly metastatic tumors such as osteosarcomas and carcinomas with 17 of 51 mice exhibiting metastasis nodules in the lung, liver or both
• 69% of osteosarcomas metastasize whereas osteosarcomas in mice heterozygous for a Trp53 null allele rarely metastasize
• 40% of adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas metastasize
• however, fibrosarcomas do not exhibit metastasis
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• mice exhibit an increased rate of tumorigenesis and develop osteosarcomas, fibrosarcomas, angiosarcomas, lyposarcomas, adenocarcinomas, hepatocellular carcinomas, poorly differentiated carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas, lymphoma and adenoma
• however, tumorigenesis is rarely accompanied by loss of heterozygosity
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• 16% of mice develop lymphomas compared to 25% and 32% of mice heterozygous for one of two Trp53 null allele
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• 29% of mice develop carcinomas compared to only 10% of mice heterozygous for a Trp53 null allele
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• in 54% of mice
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