Pigmentation-related genes and their implication in malignant melanoma susceptibility

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 634-642

  Fernandez, Lara P ^a   Milne, Roger L ^b   Pita, Guillermo ^b   Floristan, Uxua ^c   Sendagorta, Elena ^c   Feito, Marta ^c   Avilés, Jose A ^d   Martin Gonzalez, Manuel ^e   Lázaro, Pablo ^d   Benítez, Javier ^a,b   Ribas, Gloria ^a  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

^b Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Pigmentation; Polymorphism; Risk; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MYOGENIN; MYOGENIN 5A; MYOGENIN 7A; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ADTB3A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ATRN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CHS1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EDNRB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HPS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MGRN1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MLANA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OA1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OCA2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LENTIGINOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT DISORDER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPAIN; SUNBURN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOSINS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPAIN;

EID: 66949130735     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2009.00846.x     Document Type: Article

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