The Effect on Melanoma Risk of Genes Previously Associated With Telomere Length

Telomere length has been associated with risk of many cancers, but results are inconsistent. Seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously associated with mean leukocyte telomere length were either genotyped or well-imputed in 11108 case patients and 13933 control patients from Europe, Isr...

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Main Authors: Iles, Mark M., Bishop, D. Timothy, Taylor, John C., Hayward, Nicholas K., Brossard, Myriam, Cust, Anne E., Dunning, Alison M., Lee, Jeffrey E., Moses, Eric K., Akslen, Lars A., Andresen, Per A., Avril, Marie-Françoise, Azizi, Esther, Scarrà, Giovanna Bianchi, Brown, Kevin M., Dębniak, Tadeusz, Elder, David E., Friedman, Eitan, Ghiorzo, Paola, Gillanders, Elizabeth M., Goldstein, Alisa M., Gruis, Nelleke A., Hansson, Johan, Harland, Mark, Helsing, Per, Hočevar, Marko, Höiom, Veronica, Ingvar, Christian, Kanetsky, Peter A., Landi, Maria Teresa, Lang, Julie, Lathrop, G. Mark, Lubiński, Jan, Mackie, Rona M., Martin, Nicholas G., Molven, Anders, Montgomery, Grant W., Novaković, Srdjan, Olsson, Håkan, Puig, Susana, Puig-Butille, Joan Anton, Radford-Smith, Graham L., Randerson-Moor, Juliette, van der Stoep, Nienke, van Doorn, Remco, Whiteman, David C., MacGregor, Stuart, Pooley, Karen A., Ward, Sarah V., Mann, Graham J., Amos, Christopher I., Pharoah, Paul D. P., Demenais, Florence, Law, Matthew H., Newton Bishop, Julia A., Barrett, Jennifer H.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196080/