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A transposon-based analysis of gene mutations related to skin cancer development.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Jan 2013
Quintana Rita M, Dupuy Adam J, Bravo Ana, Casanova M Llanos, Alameda Josefa P, Page Angustias, Sánchez-Viera Miguel, Ramírez Angel, Navarro Manuel
Abstract excerpt
Nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is by far the most frequent type of cancer in humans. NMSC includes several types of malignancies with different clinical outcomes, the most frequent being basal and squamous cell carcinomas. We have used the Sleeping Beauty transposon/transposase system to identify somatic mutations associated with NMSC. Transgenic mice bearing multiple copies of a mutagenic Sleeping Beauty...
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