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New developments in melanoma genetics.
Current oncology reports - 1 Jul 2000
Hayward N
Abstract excerpt
Research over the last decade has unraveled many details of genetic susceptibility to melanoma. The most recent advances include the characterization of variants outside the coding region of the CDKN2A gene associated with melanoma predisposition. A mutation in the 5' untranslated region (UTR) of CDKN2A generates a novel upstream initiation codon that abrogates expression of p16, and a common polymorphism in the...
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