Towards the use of precision medicine in predicting cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma risk among solid organ transplant recipients.

British Journal of Dermatology - Tập 177 Số 4 - Trang 901-902 - 2017
M O Nguyen1,2, H T Nguyen3, M M Asgari1,2
1Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 230A, Boston, MA, 02114, U.S.A.
2Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
3Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC, NY, U.S.A.

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