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Founder Mutations for Early Onset Melanoma as Revealed by Whole Exome Sequencing Suggests That This is Not Associated with the Increasing Incidence of Melanoma in Poland.
Cancer research and treatment - 1 Jan 2019
Dębniak Tadeusz, Scott Rodney J, Lea Rodney A, Górski Bohdan, Masojć Bartłomiej, Cybulski Cezary, Kram Andrzej, Maleszka Romuald, Gromowski Tomasz, Paszkowska-Szczur Katarzyna, Kashyap Aniruddh, Lener Marcin R, Malińska Karolina, Rogoża Emilia, Murawa Dawid, Rudnicka Helena, Deptuła Jakub, Lubiński Jan
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PURPOSE: Germline mutations within melanoma susceptibility genes are present only in minority of melanoma patients and it is expected that additional genes will be discovered with next generation sequence technology and whole-exome sequencing (WES). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Herein we performed WES on a cohort of 96 unrelated Polish patients with melanoma diagnosed under the age of 40 years who all screened negative...
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