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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Med Genet. 2010 Nov 19;48(3):168–176. doi: 10.1136/jmg.2010.083022

Table 3.

Xeroderma pigmentosum patient deaths, 1971–2009

XP Number Comp Group Phenotype Age at Death (yr) Cause of Death Reference
XP20BE G XP/CSa 6 Neurological degeneration [7, 33, 36]
XP422BE UNK XP 11 Metastatic melanoma This study
XP286BE D XP 16 Neurological degeneration This study
XP15BE C XP 16 Glioblastoma [3, 4]
XP120BE A XP 24 Neurological degeneration This study
XP13BE VAR XP 25 Struck by lightning [4, 18]
XP17BE D XP 26 Neurological degeneration [18]
XP4BE VAR XP 27 Metastatic melanoma [4, 18, 76]
XP5BE D XP 28 Neurological degeneration [4, 18]
XP423BE UNK XP 28 Invasive SCC This study
XP10BE C XP 28 Invasive SCC [4, 18]
XP6BE D XP 29 Invasive SCC/Neurological degenerationb [4, 18, 20]
XP424BE C XP 29 Metastatic melanoma This study
XP23BE C XP 31 Metastatic melanoma/astrocytoma cordc [3, 22, 24, 27, 31]
XPTTD384BE D XP/TTDa 32 Metastatic melanoma This study
XP27BE C XP 32 Unknown [77]
XP8BE C XP 32 Metastatic melanoma [4]
XP26BE C XP 33 Invasive SCC This study
XP11BE B XP/CSa 33 Arteriosclerosis [4, 35]
XP24BE C XP 35 Glioblastoma [24, 31, 59]
XPLABE D XP 36 Drug overdose [78]
XPBHBE (XP1MI) C XP 37 Unknown [53]
XP3BE C XP 37 Lung cancer/Metastatic melanomad [3, 4, 18, 41]
XP29BE D XP 37 Neurological degeneration [44, 59]
XP7BE D XP 42 Neurological degeneration [4, 18]
XP12BE A XP 44 Neurological degeneration [4, 18, 24, 31, 45, 45, 79]
XP32BE D XP 46 Neurological degeneration This study
XP1BE C XP 49 Uterine cancer [4, 18, 24, 27, 39, 41, 41, 42, 59]
XP14BE C XP 73 Schwannoma [4]
a

XP/CS indicates Xeroderma pigmentosum/Cockayne syndrome complex. XP/TTD indicates Xeroderma pigmentosum/Trichothiodystrophy

b

XP6BE died from invasive SCC; however, the patient also had neurologic degeneration

c

XP23BE died from metastatic melanoma; however, the patient also had astrocytoma of spinal cord

d

XP3BE died from lung cancer; however, the patient also had metastatic melanoma