Genetic analysis of three important genes in pigmentation and melanoma susceptibility: CDKN2A, MC1R and HERC2/OCA2

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 836-844

  Ibarrola Villava, Maider ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Fernandez, Lara P ^a   Pita, Guillermo ^a   Bravo, Jerónimo ^b   Floristan, Uxua ^c   Sendagorta, Elena ^c   Feito, Marta ^c   Avilés, José A ^d   Martin Gonzalez, Manuel ^e   Lázaro, Pablo ^d   Benítez, Javier ^a   Ribas, Gloria ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigations Oncológicas   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Haplotypes; Melanocortin 1 receptor gene; Melanoma; Oculocutaneous albinism type II gene; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, P16; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPAIN;

EID: 77955742355     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2010.01115.x     Document Type: Article

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