Mitochondrial DNA instability in malignant melanoma of the skin is mostly restricted to nodular and metastatic stages

Melanoma Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 501-508

  Poetsch, Micaela ^a   Dittberner, Thomas ^b   Petersmann, Astrid ^a   Woenckhaus, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Consultant Comm of the Hlth Ins ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

4977 mtDNA deletion; Malignant melanoma; Mitochondrial DNA instability; UV radiation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA SEQUENCE, UNSTABLE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 13544263522     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008390-200412000-00010     Document Type: Article

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