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The genetics of hereditary melanoma and nevi. 1998 update.
Cancer - 1 Dec 1999
Greene M H
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Although the first English-language report of melanoma in 1820 contained a description of a melanoma-prone family, it was 1983 before formal genetic analysis suggested an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance for both melanoma and the then newly described melanoma precursor, dysplastic nevi (DN). Subsequent genetic studies have assumed this model to be correct, although when viewed in aggregate, the data are...
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