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Prognostic significance of allelic losses in primary melanoma.
Oncogene - 30 Apr 1998
Healy E, Belgaid C, Takata M, Harrison D, Zhu N W, Burd D A, Rigby H S, Matthews J N, Rees J L
Abstract excerpt
Loss of genetic material, including loss of loci on chromosome arms 6q, 9p, and 10q, occurs frequently in cutaneous melanoma but infrequently in benign melanocytic nevi or other melanocytic lesions, suggesting that these genetic alterations are important in the development and progression of melanoma. To examine whether allelic loss is of prognostic importance in melanoma, disease-free survival was related to...
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