Name: Genetic Diversity in Melanoma
Creator: Paul S. Meltzer
Keywords: Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf, 03 medical and health sciences, Genes, ras, Skin Neoplasms, 0302 clinical medicine, Genome, Human, Mutation, Humans, Nucleic Acid Hybridization, DNA, Neoplasm

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 17 Nov 2005 English Publisher:Massachusetts Medical SocietyJournal:New England Journal of Medicine, volume 353, pages 2,104-2,107 (issn: 0028-4793, eissn: 1533-4406,

Authors: Paul S. Meltzer;

doi: 10.1056/nejmp058173

pmid: 16291979

Genetic Diversity in Melanoma

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Abstract

The process of transformation of normal melanocytes into malignant melanoma requires the acquisition of genomic abnormalities. Dr. Paul Meltzer writes that tracking down the genetic changes in cancer has proved to be a powerful approach to the selection of therapeutic targets.

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National Institute of Health
Pakistan
National Human Genome Research Institute
United States

Keywords

Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf, Genes, ras, Skin Neoplasms, Genome, Human, Mutation, Humans, Nucleic Acid Hybridization, DNA, Neoplasm, DNA Fingerprinting, Melanoma

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