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Low prevalence of germline CDKN2A and CDK4 mutations in patients with early-onset melanoma.
Archives of dermatology - 1 Sept 2000
Tsao H, Zhang X, Kwitkiwski K, Finkelstein D M, Sober A J, Haluska F G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In patients with cutaneous melanoma, early age at disease onset is characteristic in familial cases and in individuals with multiple primary melanomas. Both subsets of patients with melanoma are at risk for harboring germline CDKN2A or CDK4 mutations. OBJECTIVE: We set out to prospectively determine the prevalence of CDKN2A and CDK4 mutations in a group of young patients with melanoma. DESIGN: We...
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