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The Y152X MC1R gene mutation: occurrence in ethnically diverse Jewish malignant melanoma patients.
Melanoma research - 1 Apr 2007
Galore Gilli, Azizi Esther, Scope Alon, Pavlotsky Felix, Yakobson Emanuel, Friedman Eitan
Abstract excerpt
MC1R sequence variants are associated with malignant melanoma risk, and most commonly are missense mutations. Few (n=9) truncating mutations have been described in this gene as predisposing to malignant melanoma. In this study, three Jewish individuals were found to harbor an identical truncating...
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