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Xeroderma pigmentosum genes and melanoma risk.
International journal of cancer - 1 Sept 2013
Paszkowska-Szczur K, Scott R J, Serrano-Fernandez P, Mirecka A, Gapska P, Górski B, Cybulski C, Maleszka R, Sulikowski M, Nagay L, Lubinski J, Dębniak T
Abstract excerpt
Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare autosomal recessive disease that is associated with a severe deficiency in nucleotide excision repair. The presence of a distinct the nucleotide excision repair (NER) mutation signature in melanoma suggests that perturbations in this critical repair process are likely to be involved with disease risk. We hypothesized that persons with polymorphic NER gene(s) are likely to have...
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