Genome-wide association study of tanning phenotype in a population of european ancestry

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2250-2257

  Nan, Hongmei ^a,b   Kraft, Peter ^b   Qureshi, Abrar A ^a   Guo, Qun ^a,b   Chen, Constance ^b   Hankinson, Susan E ^a,b   Hu, Frank B ^a,b   Thomas, Gilles ^c   Hoover, Robert N ^c   Chanock, Stephen ^c   Hunter, David J ^a,b,c,d   Han, Jiali ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME 1; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN CANCER; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNLIGHT; UNITED STATES;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SUNBATHING;

EID: 70349748581     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2009.62     Document Type: Article

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