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Familial melanoma: a complex disorder leading to controversy on DNA testing.
Familial cancer - 1 Jan 2003
de Snoo Femke A, Bergman Wilma, Gruis Nelleke A
Abstract excerpt
The initial enthusiasm generated by the discovery of the first susceptibility gene found for melanoma has slightly dampened over recent years. For the majority of melanoma families the underlying gene defect is still not known, so the search for other melanoma genes is continuing. Also, the increased risk of melanoma does not seem to be restricted to mutation carriers, but is present even in non-mutation carriers...
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