1993
Cutaneous malignant melanoma and atypical moles associated with a constitutional rearrangement of chromosomes 5 and 9
Petty E, Bolognia J, Bale A, Yang‐Feng T. Cutaneous malignant melanoma and atypical moles associated with a constitutional rearrangement of chromosomes 5 and 9. American Journal Of Medical Genetics 1993, 45: 77-80. PMID: 8418665, DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320450119.Peer-Reviewed Case Reports and Technical NotesConceptsHereditary cutaneous malignant melanomaCutaneous malignant melanomaMalignant melanomaMultiple primary melanomasMelanoma tumor tissuesUnbalanced reciprocal translocationPrimary melanomaFamily historyTumor tissueMelanomaCell linesLarge kindredChromosome 9pKindredsReciprocal translocationMolecular studiesShort armNumerous studiesChromosome 5
1992
Assignment of a Locus for Familial Melanoma, MLM, to Chromosome 9p13-p22
Cannon-Albright L, Goldgar D, Meyer L, Lewis C, Anderson D, Fountain J, Hegi M, Wiseman R, Petty E, Bale A, Olopade O, Diaz M, Kwiatkowski D, Piepkorn M, Zone J, Skolnick M. Assignment of a Locus for Familial Melanoma, MLM, to Chromosome 9p13-p22. Science 1992, 258: 1148-1152. PMID: 1439824, DOI: 10.1126/science.1439824.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMelanoma susceptibility locusSusceptibility lociFamilial melanoma susceptibilityInterferon alpha genesFamilial melanomaMultipoint linkage analysisShort tandem repeat markersRepeat markersTandem repeat markersChromosomal regionsGenetic markersLinkage analysisLociSomatic lossMelanoma susceptibilityMelanoma tumorsGermline deletionChromosome 9p21Maximum location scoreHomozygous deletionCritical roleCandidate regionsDeletionUtah kindredsChromosomes