Melanomas
Research from McGill University Provides New Data about Melanomas
Published in Cancer Weekly, August 2nd, 2011
2011 AUG 2 -- A report, "Mutation analysis of the PALB2 cancer predisposition gene in familial melanoma," is newly published data in Familial Cancer. According to the authors of recent research from Montreal, Canada, "PALB2 is a breast and pancreas cancer susceptibility gene whose protein is closely associated with BRCA2 and is essential for BRCA2 anchorage to nuclear structures. This functional relationship made PALB2 a candidate gene for susceptibility to BRCA2-related cancers such as melanoma."
"The purpose of this study was to screen for the presence of germline mutations in PALB2 in familial melanoma cases. We sequenced the exons and intron-exon...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-08-02)
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