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Clones of normal keratinocytes and a variety of simultaneously present epidermal neoplastic lesions contain a multitude of p53 gene mutations in a xeroderma pigmentosum patient.
Cancer research - 1 Jun 1998
Williams C, Pontén F, Ahmadian A, Ren Z P, Ling G, Rollman O, Ljung A, Jaspers N G, Uhlén M, Lundeberg J, Pontén J
Abstract excerpt
A patient with xeroderma pigmentosum group C was extensively examined for mutations in the p53 gene in normal skin exposed to varying degrees of sunlight and in excisional biopsies of basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer, and squamous cell dysplasia. Seventy-three samples were analyzed by micr...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Biopsy
- Clone Cells
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA Repair
- Epidermis
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Keratinocytes
- Male
- Mutation
- Skin
- Skin Neoplasms
- Ultraviolet Rays
- Xeroderma Pigmentosum