Assessment of polymorphic variants in the melanocortin-1 receptor gene with cutaneous pigmentation using an evolutionary approach

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 808-819

  Kanetsky, Peter A ^a,b   Ge, Fan ^a   Najarian, Derek ^a,c   Swoyer, Jennifer ^a,d   Panossian, Saarene ^a   Schuchter, Lynn ^a,b   Holmes, Robin ^b   Guerry, DuPont ^a,b   Rebbeck, Timothy R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; LENTIGO; MALE; MELANOGENESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 2942545810     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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