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Investigation of the effect of MDM2 SNP309 and TP53 Arg72Pro polymorphisms on the age of onset of cutaneous melanoma.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 May 2012
Cotignola Javier, Chou Joanne F, Roy Pampa, Mitra Nandita, Busam Klaus, Halpern Allan C, Orlow Irene
Abstract excerpt
Melanoma accounts for the majority of deaths from skin cancer. Women tend to be diagnosed at a younger age and have better survival than men. A tumor-host interaction might be responsible for these gender-specific differences. Recently, a functional single-nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter of the human homolog of mouse double minute 2 (MDM2) gene was characterized: single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)309...
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