The Genetic Evolution of Melanoma from Precursor Lesions.

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Published in N Engl J Med on November 12, 2015

Authors

A Hunter Shain1, Iwei Yeh, Ivanka Kovalyshyn, Aravindhan Sriharan, Eric Talevich, Alexander Gagnon, Reinhard Dummer, Jeffrey North, Laura Pincus, Beth Ruben, William Rickaby, Corrado D'Arrigo, Alistair Robson, Boris C Bastian

Author Affiliations

1: From the Departments of Dermatology and Pathology (A.H.S., I.Y., E.T., A.G., J.N., L.P., B.R., B.C.B.) and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (A.H.S., I.Y., E.T., A.G., B.C.B.), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco; the Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (I.K.); the Department of Pathology, Orlando Health, Orlando, FL (A.S.); the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (R.D.); and the Department of Dermatology, Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester (C.D.), and the Department of Dermatology, St. John's Institute of Dermatology, London (W.R., A.R.) - both in the United Kingdom.

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