A variant in FTO shows association with melanoma risk not due to BMI.

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Published in Nat Genet on March 03, 2013

Authors

Mark M Iles1, Matthew H Law, Simon N Stacey, Jiali Han, Shenying Fang, Ruth Pfeiffer, Mark Harland, Stuart Macgregor, John C Taylor, Katja K Aben, Lars A Akslen, Marie-Françoise Avril, Esther Azizi, Bert Bakker, Kristrun R Benediktsdottir, Wilma Bergman, Giovanna Bianchi Scarrà, Kevin M Brown, Donato Calista, Valérie Chaudru, Maria Concetta Fargnoli, Anne E Cust, Florence Demenais, Anne C de Waal, Tadeusz Dębniak, David E Elder, Eitan Friedman, Pilar Galan, Paola Ghiorzo, Elizabeth M Gillanders, Alisa M Goldstein, Nelleke A Gruis, Johan Hansson, Per Helsing, Marko Hočevar, Veronica Höiom, John L Hopper, Christian Ingvar, Marjolein Janssen, Mark A Jenkins, Peter A Kanetsky, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Julie Lang, G Mark Lathrop, Sancy Leachman, Jeffrey E Lee, Jan Lubiński, Rona M Mackie, Graham J Mann, Nicholas G Martin, Jose I Mayordomo, Anders Molven, Suzanne Mulder, Eduardo Nagore, Srdjan Novaković, Ichiro Okamoto, Jon H Olafsson, Håkan Olsson, Hubert Pehamberger, Ketty Peris, Maria Pilar Grasa, Dolores Planelles, Susana Puig, Joan Anton Puig-Butille, Juliette Randerson-Moor, Celia Requena, Licia Rivoltini, Monica Rodolfo, Mario Santinami, Bardur Sigurgeirsson, Helen Snowden, Fengju Song, Patrick Sulem, Kristin Thorisdottir, Rainer Tuominen, Patricia Van Belle, Nienke van der Stoep, Michelle M van Rossum, Qingyi Wei, Judith Wendt, Diana Zelenika, Mingfeng Zhang, Maria Teresa Landi, Gudmar Thorleifsson, D Timothy Bishop, Christopher I Amos, Nicholas K Hayward, Kari Stefansson, Julia A Newton Bishop, Jennifer H Barrett, GenoMEL Consortium, Q-MEGA and AMFS Investigators

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Leeds Cancer Research UK Centre, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK. m.m.iles@leeds.ac.uk

Associated clinical trials:

Family Study of Melanoma in Italy | NCT00339222

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