Capturing the biological impact of CDKN2A and MC1R genes as an early predisposing event in melanoma and non melanoma skin cancer

Oncotarget

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1439-1451

  Puig Butille, Joan Anton ^a,b   Escámez, María José ^b,c,d   Garcia Garcia, Francisco ^e   Tell Marti, Gemma ^a   Fabra, Àngels ^f   Martínez Santamaría, Lucía ^b,c,d   Badenas, Celia ^a,b   Aguilera, Paula ^a,b   Pevida, Marta ^b,g   Dopazo, Joaquín ^b,e   del Río, Marcela ^b,c,d   Puig, Susana ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

^c CIEMAT   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^f BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^g Centro Comunitario de Sangre y Tejidos del Principado de Asturias   (Spain)

Author keywords

CDKN2A; Familial melanoma; Gene expression; MC1R; Mutations; p16

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; HLA DPB1 ANTIGEN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CDKN2A GENE; CLEC2B GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA DAMAGE; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HLA DPB1 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IFI27 GENE; IFI44 GENE; IFI44L GENE; IFIT1 GENE; IFIT2 GENE; IFNK GENE; MC1R GENE; MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SP110 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84904245655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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