Lack of TERT promoter mutations in melanomas with extensive regression

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 570-572

  De Unamuno Bustos, Blanca ^a   Murria Estal, Rosa ^a   Pérez Simó, Gema ^a   Oliver Martínez, Vicente ^b   Llavador Ros, Margarita ^a   Palanca Suela, Sarai ^a   Botella Estrada, Rafael ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b University General Hospital of Valencia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SIZE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MITOSIS RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN ULCER; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84958280529     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2015.10.003     Document Type: Article

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