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Elina Uusitalo – Neurofibromatosis type 1: from gene to population and cancer
List of original publications
1. Uusitalo E, Hammais A, Palonen E, MäkeläV-V, Kallionpää R, Ee-
va-Mari Jouhilahti, et al. Neurofibromatosis type 1 gene mutation
analysis using sequence capture and high-throughput sequencing.
Acta Derm Venereol 2014; 94: 663–666.
2. Uusitalo E, Leppävirta J, Koffert A, Suominen S, Vahtera J, Vahlberg
T , et al. Incidence and mortality of neurofibromatosis. A total
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population study in Finland. J Invest Dermatol 2015; 135: 904–906.
3. Uusitalo E, Rantanen M, Kallionpää RA, Pöyhönen M, Leppävirta
J, Ylä-Outinen H, et al. Distinctive cancer associations in patients
with neurofibromatosis type 1. J Clin Oncol 2016; 34: 1978–1786.
4. Uusitalo E, Kallionpää RA, Kurki S, Rantanen M, Pitkäniemi J,
Kronqvist P, et al. Breast cancer in neurofibromatosis type 1:
overrepresentation of unfavourable prognostic factors. Br J Cancer
2017; 116: 211–217.
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