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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
May. 16, 1997
Michael Carlton Dean, Frederick, MD (US);
Heidi Eve Hahn, Washington, DC (US);
Carol Wicking, Auchenflower, AU;
Jeffrey Christiansen, Yeronga, AU;
Peter G Zaphiropoulos, Tullinge, SE;
Mae R. Gailani, Guilford, CT (US);
Susan Mary Shanley, Norman Park, AU;
Abirami Chidambaram, Frederick, MD (US);
Igor Vorechovsky, Huddinge, SE;
Erika Holmberg-Lindstrom, Solna, SE;
Anne Birgitte Unden, Huddinge, SE;
Susan Alana Gillies, Newfarm, AU;
Kylie Negus, Queenslopes, AU;
Ian Mcleod Smyth, Fig Tree Pocket, AU;
Carol Leah Pressman, Houston, TX (US);
David J. Leffell, New Haven, CT (US);
Bernard Gerrard, Frederick, MD (US);
Alisa Miriam Goldstein, Rockville, MD (US);
Brandon Wainwright, Bardon, AU;
Rune Carl-Magnus Toftgard, Skarholmen, SE;
Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Toowong, AU;
Allen E. Bale, Northford, CT (US);
Abstract
This invention provides for a tumor suppressor gene inactivation of which is a causal factor in nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome and various sporadic basal cell carcinomas. The NBCCS gene is a homologue of the (ptc) gene.