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Higher methylation subtype of malignant melanoma and its correlation with thicker progression and worse prognosis.
Cancer medicine - 1 Oct 2020
Yamamoto Yosuke, Matsusaka Keisuke, Fukuyo Masaki, Rahmutulla Bahityar, Matsue Hiroyuki, Kaneda Atsushi
Abstract excerpt
Malignant melanoma (MM) is the most life-threatening disease among all skin malignancies, and recent genome-wide studies reported BRAF, RAS, and NF1 as the most frequently mutated driver genes. While epigenetic aberrations are known to contribute to the oncogenic activity seen in various cancers, their role in MM has not been fully investigated. To investigate the role of epigenetic aberrations in MM, we...
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