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Clinical characteristics of patients with cutaneous melanoma according to variants in the melanocortin 1 receptor gene.
Actas dermo-sifiliograficas - 1 Mar 2014
Peña-Vilabelda M M, García-Casado Z, Requena C, Traves V, López-Guerrero J A, Guillén C, Kumar R, Nagore E
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INTRODUCTION: Patients with cutaneous melanoma who are carriers of polymorphisms in the melanocortin 1 receptor gene (MC1R) have distinctive clinical characteristics. The objective of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics associated with differing degrees of functional impairment of the melanocortin 1 receptor, as determined by the number and type (R and r) of MC1R polymorphisms. MATERIAL AND...
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