Population-based study of natural variation in the melanocortin-1 receptor gene and melanoma.

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Published in Cancer Res on September 15, 2006

Authors

Peter A Kanetsky1, Timothy R Rebbeck, Amanda J Hummer, Saarene Panossian, Bruce K Armstrong, Anne Kricker, Loraine D Marrett, Robert C Millikan, Stephen B Gruber, Hoda Anton Culver, Roberto Zanetti, Richard P Gallagher, Terence Dwyer, Klaus Busam, Lynn From, Urvi Mujumdar, Homer Wilcox, Colin B Begg, Marianne Berwick

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6021, USA. pkanetsk@cceb.med.upenn.edu

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