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A potential laboratory test for dysplastic nevus syndrome: ultraviolet hypermutability of a shuttle vector plasmid.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Jul 1994
Moriwaki S, Tarone R E, Kraemer K H
Abstract excerpt
The diagnosis of the melanoma-prone disorder dysplastic nevus syndrome (DNS) is based currently on a combination of clinical and histopathologic examinations of patients. To develop a potential laboratory test for DNS, we utilized the observation that an ultraviolet light (UV)-treated mutagenesis plasmid shuttle vector has an abnormally increased frequency of mutations after transfection into lymphoblastoid cells...
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