Contribution of susceptibility gene variants to melanoma risk in families from the Veneto region of Italy

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 728-730

  Menin, Chiara ^a   Vecchiato, Antonella ^a   Scaini, Maria Chiara ^b   Elefanti, Lisa ^a   Funari, Gloria ^b   De Salvo, Gian Luca ^a   Quaggio, Monica ^b   Tognazzo, Silvia ^a   Agata, Simona ^a   Santa, Silvia Dalla ^b   Montagna, Marco ^a   Alaibac, Mauro ^b   Chiarion Sileni, Vanna ^a   D'Andrea, Emma ^a,b  

^a VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 4; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CANCER FAMILY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; MELANOMA; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTIPLE PRIMARY MELANOMA; MUTATION RATE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; FAMILY; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MELANOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80051895132     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2011.00876.x     Document Type: Letter

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