Stanford study links cancer to loss of protein that hooks skin cells together

Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

In a study to be published online Oct. 21 in PLoS Genetics, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have implicated the lack of a protein important in hooking our skin cells together in the most common variety of skin cancer. Depletion of this protein, called Perp, could be an early indicator of skin cancer development, and could be useful for staging and establishing prognoses...

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