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Skin pigmentation polymorphisms associated with increased risk of melanoma in a case-control sample from southern Brazil.

Larissa B ReisRenato M BakosFernanda Sales Luiz ViannaGabriel S MacedoVanessa C JacovasAndré M Ribeiro-Dos-SantosSidney SantosLúcio BakosPatricia Ashton-Prolla
Published in: BMC cancer (2020)
These results contribute to the current knowledge and indicate that epistatic interaction of these SNPs, with an additive or correlational effect, may be involved in modulating the risk of melanoma in individuals from a geographic region with a high incidence of the disease.
Keyphrases
  • case control
  • skin cancer
  • healthcare
  • risk factors
  • genome wide
  • signaling pathway
  • basal cell carcinoma
  • soft tissue
  • gene expression