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Common variants of DNA repair genes and malignant melanoma.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 Jan 2008
Debniak T, Scott R J, Górski B, Cybulski C, van de Wetering T, Serrano-Fernandez P, Huzarski T, Byrski T, Nagay L, Debniak B, Kowalska E, Jakubowska A, Gronwald J, Wokolorczyk D, Maleszka R, Kładny J, Lubinski J
Abstract excerpt
In the current study, we evaluated the possible associations of seven common variants of the DNA repair and cell cycle control genes BRCA2 and CHEK2 with malignant melanoma (MM). We genotyped 630 unselected MM patients and over 3700 controls (newborns, age- and sex-matched healthy adults with negative cancer family histories, and the adults selected at random by family doctors) for the prevalence of three common...
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