Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies five new susceptibility loci for cutaneous malignant melanoma

Thirteen common susceptibility loci have been reproducibly associated with cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM). We report the results of an international 2-stage meta-analysis of CMM genome-wide association studies (GWAS). This meta-analysis combines 11 GWAS (5 previously unpublished) and a further t...

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Main Authors: Law, Matthew H., Bishop, D. Timothy, Lee, Jeffrey E., Brossard, Myriam, Martin, Nicholas G., Moses, Eric K., Song, Fengju, Barrett, Jennifer H., Kumar, Rajiv, Easton, Douglas F., Pharoah, Paul D. P., Swerdlow, Anthony J., Kypreou, Katerina P., Taylor, John C., Harland, Mark, Randerson-Moor, Juliette, Akslen, Lars A., Andresen, Per A., Avril, Marie-Françoise, Azizi, Esther, Scarrà, Giovanna Bianchi, Brown, Kevin M., Dębniak, Tadeusz, Duffy, David L., Elder, David E., Fang, Shenying, Friedman, Eitan, Galan, Pilar, Ghiorzo, Paola, Gillanders, Elizabeth M., Goldstein, Alisa M., Gruis, Nelleke A., Hansson, Johan, Helsing, Per, Hočevar, Marko, Höiom, Veronica, Ingvar, Christian, Kanetsky, Peter A., Chen, Wei V., Landi, Maria Teresa, Lang, Julie, Lathrop, G. Mark, Lubiński, Jan, Mackie, Rona M., Mann, Graham J., Molven, Anders, Montgomery, Grant W., Novaković, Srdjan, Olsson, Håkan, Puig, Susana, Puig-Butille, Joan Anton, Qureshi, Abrar A., Radford-Smith, Graham L., van der Stoep, Nienke, van Doorn, Remco, Whiteman, David C., Craig, Jamie E., Schadendorf, Dirk, Simms, Lisa A., Burdon, Kathryn P., Nyholt, Dale R., Pooley, Karen A., Orr, Nick, Stratigos, Alexander J., Cust, Anne E., Ward, Sarah V., Hayward, Nicholas K., Han, Jiali, Schulze, Hans-Joachim, Dunning, Alison M., Bishop, Julia A. Newton, Demenais, Florence, Amos, Christopher I., MacGregor, Stuart, Iles, Mark M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557485/