A role for sunlight in skin cancer: UV-induced p53 mutations in squamous cell carcinoma.
Brash DE, Rudolph JA, Simon JA, Lin A, McKenna GJ, Baden HP, Halperin AJ, Pontén J. A role for sunlight in skin cancer: UV-induced p53 mutations in squamous cell carcinoma. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 1991, 88: 10124-10128. PMID: 1946433, PMCID: PMC52880, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.22.10124.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSquamous cell carcinomaCell carcinomaP53 mutationsMajor epidemiologic risk factorsUV-induced p53 mutationsInvasive squamous cell carcinomaEpidemiologic risk factorsUV-specific mutationsP53 tumor suppressor geneInternal malignancySwedish patientsRisk factorsSkin cancerTumor progressionTT double-base changesTumor suppressor geneCarcinomaHuman cancersCancerDipyrimidine sitesSuppressor geneT substitutionSkinMutationsPatients