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Multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma is caused by a disease-specific spectrum of mutations in TGFBR1.
Nature genetics - 27 Feb 2011
Goudie David R, D'Alessandro Mariella, Merriman Barry, Lee Hane, Szeverényi Ildikó, Avery Stuart, O'Connor Brian D, Nelson Stanley F, Coats Stephanie E, Stewart Arlene, Christie Lesley, Pichert Gabriella, Friedel Jean, Hayes Ian, Burrows Nigel, Whittaker Sean, Gerdes Anne-Marie, Broesby-Olsen Sigurd, Ferguson-Smith Malcolm A, Verma Chandra, Lunny Declan P, Reversade Bruno, Lane E Birgitte
Abstract excerpt
Multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma (MSSE), also known as Ferguson-Smith disease (FSD), is an autosomal-dominant skin cancer condition characterized by multiple squamous-carcinoma-like locally invasive skin tumors that grow rapidly for a few weeks before spontaneously regressing, leaving scars. High-throughput genomic sequencing of a conservative estimate (24.2 Mb) of the disease locus on chromosome 9...
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