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High levels of patched gene mutations in basal-cell carcinomas from patients with xeroderma pigmentosum.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Apr 1999
Bodak N, Queille S, Avril M F, Bouadjar B, Drougard C, Sarasin A, Daya-Grosjean L
Abstract excerpt
Recently, hptc, a human gene homologous to the Drosophila segment polarity gene patched (ptc), has been implicated in the nevoid basal-cell carcinoma (BCC) syndrome, and somatic mutations of hptc also have been found in sporadic BCCs, the most frequent cancers found in the white population. We ha...
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