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A Robust Discovery Platform for the Identification of Novel Mediators of Melanoma Metastasis
Published on: March 8, 2022
Unfolding the mutational landscape of human melanoma
Diwakar Davar1, Yan Lin2, John M Kirkwood1
1Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Abstract:
Over the preceding two decades, sophisticated sequencing techniques have been used to characterize the genetic drivers of adult melanoma. However, our understanding of pediatric melanomas is still rudimentary. In this report, we comment on a thorough multi-platform analysis of common pediatric melanoma subsets, including pediatric conventional melanoma (CM), congenital nevus-derived melanoma (CNM), and Spitzoid melanoma (SM), contributed by Lu et al.
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