Mutations and copy number increase of HRAS in Spitz nevi with distinctive histopathological features.

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Published in Am J Pathol on September 01, 2000

Authors

B C Bastian1, P E LeBoit, D Pinkel

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Dermatology and Pathology and UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0808, USA. bastian@cc.ucsf.edu

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