Common Variant Increase Risk Of Most Common Form Of Skin Cancer By 170%
Monday, October 13, 2008 - 21:21
in Health & Medicine
Scientists report the discovery of common versions of two single-letter variations in the human genome (SNPs) that confer risk of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), the most common cancer among people of European ancestry. Unlike the four sets of SNPs previously found by deCODE to confer risk of BCC and cutaneous melanoma, those reported today are not linked to fair pigmentation traits that also make certain people prone to freckling and sunburn.
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