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Nature Genetics 40, 886–891 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/ng.161

ASIP and TYR pigmentation variants associate with cutaneous melanoma and basal cell carcinoma

Daniel F Gudbjartsson , Patrick Sulem , Simon N Stacey , Alisa M Goldstein , Thorunn Rafnar , Bardur Sigurgeirsson , Kristrun R Benediktsdottir , Kristin Thorisdottir , Rafn Ragnarsson , Steinunn G Sveinsdottir , Veronica Magnusson , Annika Lindblom , Konstantinos Kostulas , Rafael Botella-Estrada , Virtudes Soriano , Pablo Juber|[iacute]|as , Matilde Grasa , Berta Saez , Raquel Andres , Dominique Scherer , Peter Rudnai , Eugene Gurzau , Kvetoslava Koppova , Lambertus A Kiemeney , Margret Jakobsdottir , Stacy Steinberg , Agnar Helgason , Solveig Gretarsdottir , Margaret A Tucker , Jos|[eacute]| I Mayordomo , Eduardo Nagore , Rajiv Kumar , Johan Hansson , Jon H Olafsson , Jeffrey Gulcher , Augustine Kong , Unnur Thorsteinsdottir & Kari Stefansson

Fair color increases risk of cutaneous melanoma (CM) and basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Recent genome-wide association studies have identified variants affecting hair, eye and skin pigmentation in Europeans.