The role of 8q24 copy number gains and c-MYC expression in amelanotic cutaneous melanoma

Modern Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1221-1226

  Pouryazdanparast, Pedram ^a   Brenner, Alex ^a   Haghighat, Zahra ^a   Guitart, Joan ^a   Rademaker, Alfred ^a   Gerami, Pedram ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

8q24; amelanotic; c MYC; melanoma; MITF; tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MYC PROTEIN;

AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8Q; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84865755500     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2012.75     Document Type: Article

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