Sentences with phrase «by melanoma families»
We looked at particular genes, called CDKN2A and CDK4, using the samples given for research by melanoma families.
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Bolte's father, felled by a melanoma, had been a dapper Long Island attorney, and when his widow ran out of cash, banks foreclosed on the family's two homes.
A new family of genes coding for an antigen recognized by autologous cytolytic T lymphocytes on a human melanoma.
Some families have far more cases of melanoma than we would expect by chance alone.
The most frequent high penetrance melanoma gene found to be mutated in melanoma families is CDKN2A and the protein produced by the gene is called p16.
The strongest link between having a mutation in this particular gene in the family and having multiple family members with melanoma, early onset, and so forth, was in Europe followed by North America and then Australia.
And by the way, melanoma is a big deal in my family — my grandfather died from it.