Increased risk of skin cancer in Japanese heterozygotes of xeroderma pigmentosum group A

This study was designed to learn if asymptomatic heterozygotes with mutations in a DNA repair gene are at an increased risk for cancer. To examine this, we focused on carriers of an XPA founder mutation because the frequency of xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) patients is much greater among Japanese than...

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Published in:J Hum Genet
Main Authors: Hirai, Yuko, Noda, Asao, Kodama, Yoshiaki, Cordova, Kismet A., Cullings, Harry M., Yonehara, Shuji, Fujihara, Megumu, Moriwaki, Shin-ichi, Nishigori, Chikako, Mabuchi, Kiyohiko, Kraemer, Kenneth H., Nakamura, Nori
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057111/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30089811
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s10038-018-0495-y
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