Genome-wide association study identifies novel loci predisposing to cutaneous melanoma.

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Published in Hum Mol Genet on September 17, 2011

Authors

Christopher I Amos1, Li-E Wang, Jeffrey E Lee, Jeffrey E Gershenwald, Wei V Chen, Shenying Fang, Roman Kosoy, Mingfeng Zhang, Abrar A Qureshi, Selina Vattathil, Christopher W Schacherer, Julie M Gardner, Yuling Wang, D Tim Bishop, Jennifer H Barrett, GenoMEL Investigators, Stuart MacGregor, Nicholas K Hayward, Nicholas G Martin, David L Duffy, Q-Mega Investigators, Graham J Mann, Anne Cust, John Hopper, AMFS Investigators, Kevin M Brown, Elizabeth A Grimm, Yaji Xu, Younghun Han, Kaiyan Jing, Caitlin McHugh, Cathy C Laurie, Kim F Doheny, Elizabeth W Pugh, Michael F Seldin, Jiali Han, Qingyi Wei

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. camos@mdanderson.org

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