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Susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma: associations with PTCH polymorphisms.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 2004
Strange R C, El-Genidy N, Ramachandran S, Lovatt T J, Fryer A A, Smith A G, Lear J T, Wong C, Jones P W, Ichii-Jones F, Hoban P R
Abstract excerpt
Loss of function of the human patched gene (PTCH) is common and critical in basal cell carcinoma (BCC) development. Indirect evidence suggests polymorphism in PTCH mediates BCC risk. We studied 659 BCC cases and 300 controls to determine if exon 2(318), 3(429), 11(1552), 12(1665), 12(1686), 14(2199) and 23(3944) and intron 9(1336-135) and 15(2560+9)PTCH variants were sufficiently common for use in case-control...
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