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. 2014 Oct;134(10):2491-2493.
doi: 10.1038/jid.2014.233.

Cells of origin in skin cancer

Jürgen C Becker  1 , Axel Zur Hausen  2
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Cells of origin in skin cancer

Jürgen C Becker et al. J Invest Dermatol. 2014 Oct.
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Abstract

Adult skin stem cells do not protect their genome by asymmetric chromosome segregation; thus, they are prone to accumulating oncogenic mutations.

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