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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sogand Goudarzi, MD [2]

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According to the 'KIT Mutations Are Common in Testicular Seminomas' study, screening for seminoma by using the highly sensitive combination of denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and direct sequencing.

According to the 'KIT Mutations Are Common in Testicular Seminomas' study, screening for seminoma by using the highly sensitive combination of denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and direct sequencing observed:^[1]

↑ Kemmer K, Corless CL, Fletcher JA, McGreevey L, Haley A, Griffith D, Cummings OW, Wait C, Town A, Heinrich MC (January 2004). "KIT mutations are common in testicular seminomas". Am. J. Pathol. 164 (1): 305–13. doi:10.1016/S0002-9440(10)63120-3. PMC 1602213. PMID 14695343.

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