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Shedding light on skin cancer

Nature Genetics volume 40, pages 817–818 (2008)Cite this article

Pigmentation traits are known risk factors for skin cancer. Now, three new studies provide insights into the genetic factors underlying these effects, and the results reveal a surprisingly complex picture of the relationship between pigmentation traits and disease risk.

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  1. Department of Oncology, Paul D. P. Pharoah is at the Strangeways Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambs CB1 8RN, UK. paul.pharoah@srl.cam.ac.uk,

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