Survival of skin cancer stem cells requires the Ezh2 polycomb group protein.

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Published in Carcinogenesis on May 12, 2015

Authors

Gautam Adhikary1, Daniel Grun1, Sivaprakasam Balasubramanian1, Candace Kerr2, Jennifer M Huang1, Richard L Eckert3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 108 N. Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
2: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 108 N. Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
3: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 108 N. Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Department of Reproductive Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA reckert@umaryland.edu.

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