Desmosomes: new perpetrators in tumour suppression.

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Published in Nat Rev Cancer on May 01, 2011

Authors

Rachel L Dusek1, Laura D Attardi

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1: Department of Radiation Oncology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

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