From the rarest to the most common: Insights from progeroid syndromes into skin cancer and aging

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2340-2350

  Capell, Brian C ^a   Tlougan, Brook E ^a   Orlow, Seth J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA; PROTEIN FARNESYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR;

AGING; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; BLOOM SYNDROME; CANCER GROWTH; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; REVIEW; ROTHMUND THOMSON SYNDROME; SENESCENCE; SKIN CANCER; STEM CELL; TRICHOTHIODYSTROPHY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WERNER SYNDROME; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM;

EID: 70349107295     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2009.103     Document Type: Note

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