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Aberrations of the tumor suppressor p53 gene and p53 protein in solar keratosis in human skin.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Oct 1994
Taguchi M, Watanabe S, Yashima K, Murakami Y, Sekiya T, Ikeda S
Abstract excerpt
Aberrations of the p53 gene in 27 solar keratoses were examined by the polymerase chain reaction and single-strand conformation polymorphism and DNA sequencing analyses. In a series of Japanese patients, eight of 27 cases (30%) of solar keratosis showed structural abnormalities of the p53 gene. Six of eight aberrations of p53 gene were determined to be single nucleotide substitutions, and five of these were...
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