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Significantly high levels of ultraviolet-specific mutations in the smoothened gene in basal cell carcinomas from DNA repair-deficient xeroderma pigmentosum patients.
Cancer research - 15 Dec 2002
Couvé-Privat Sophie, Bouadjar Bakar, Avril Marie Françoise, Sarasin Alain, Daya-Grosjean Leela
Abstract excerpt
The Sonic hedgehog (SHH) pathway is implicated in the etiology of the most common human cancer in Caucasians, the basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Mutations in the receptor of SHH, the patched gene, have been characterized in sporadic BCCs as well as those from patients with the rare genetic syndromes...
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