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Variants at the 9p21 locus and melanoma risk.
BMC cancer - 2 Jul 2013
Maccioni Livia, Rachakonda Panduranga Sivaramakrishna, Bermejo Justo Lorenzo, Planelles Dolores, Requena Celia, Hemminki Kari, Nagore Eduardo, Kumar Rajiv
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The influence of variants at the 9p21 locus on melanoma risk has been reported through investigation of CDKN2A variants through candidate gene approach as well as by genome wide association studies (GWAS). METHODS: In the present study we genotyped, 25 SNPs that tag 273 variants on chromosome 9p21 in 837 melanoma cases and 1154 controls from Spain. Ten SNPs were selected based on previous...
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