1. Novel pleiotropic risk loci for melanoma and nevus density implicate multiple biological pathways
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David L. Duffy, Gu Zhu, Xin Li, Marianna Sanna, Mark M. Iles, Leonie C. Jacobs, David M. Evans, Seyhan Yazar, Jonathan Beesley, Matthew H. Law, Peter Kraft, Alessia Visconti, John C. Taylor, Fan Liu, Margaret J. Wright, Anjali K. Henders, Lisa Bowdler, Dan Glass, M. Arfan Ikram, André G. Uitterlinden, Pamela A. Madden, Andrew C. Heath, Elliot C. Nelson, Adele C. Green, Stephen Chanock, Jennifer H. Barrett, Matthew A. Brown, Nicholas K. Hayward, Stuart MacGregor, Richard A. Sturm, Alex W. Hewitt, Melanoma GWAS Consortium, Manfred Kayser, David J. Hunter, Julia A. Newton Bishop, Timothy D. Spector, Grant W. Montgomery, David A. Mackey, George Davey Smith, Tamar E. Nijsten, D. Timothy Bishop, Veronique Bataille, Mario Falchi, Jiali Han, and Nicholas G. Martin
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Science - Abstract
Melanocytic nevus count is associated with melanoma risk. In this study, a meta-analysis of 11 nevus GWAS studies identifies novel SNPs in KITLG and 9q32, and bivariate analysis with melanoma GWAS meta-analysis reveals that most nevus genes affect melanoma risk, while melanoma risk loci do not alter the nevus count.
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- 2018
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