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Sporadic multiple primary melanoma cases: CDKN2A germline mutations with a founder effect.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Nov 2001
Auroy S, Avril M F, Chompret A, Pham D, Goldstein A M, Bianchi-Scarrà G, Frebourg T, Joly P, Spatz A, Rubino C, Demenais F, Bressac-de Paillerets B
Abstract excerpt
Multiple primary cancers are one of the hallmarks of inherited predisposition. Outside the familial context, multiple primary tumors could be related either to germline de novo mutations or to low-penetrance mutations, in predisposing genes. We selected 100 patients who displayed multiple primary melanoma (MPM) without any known melanoma cases recorded within their families and looked for germline mutations in...
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