A novel complex insertion/deletion mutation in the XPC DNA repair gene leads to skin cancer in an Iraqi family [2]

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2542-2544

  Emmert, Steffen ^a   Wetzig, Tino ^b   Imoto, Kyoko ^c   Khan, Sikandar G ^c   Oh, Kyu Seon ^c   Laspe, Petra ^a   Zachmann, Karolin ^a   Simon, Jan C ^b   Kraemer, Kenneth H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IRAQ; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM; XPC GENE;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM;

EID: 33750040026     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700452     Document Type: Letter

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