A GWAS in uveal melanoma identifies risk polymorphisms in the CLPTM1L locus

Cancer: Risk allele identified for melanoma of the eye Researchers have discovered an important genetic risk variant linked to uveal melanoma, a rare malignant tumor of the eye. Marc-Henri Stern from Institut Curie in Paris, France, and colleagues compared more than 860,000 single DNA variants cover...

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Main Authors: Lenha Mobuchon, Aude Battistella, Claire Bardel, Ghislaine Scelo, Alexia Renoud, Alexandre Houy, Nathalie Cassoux, Maud Milder, Géraldine Cancel-Tassin, Olivier Cussenot, Olivier Delattre, Céline Besse, Anne Boland, Jean-François Deleuze, David G. Cox, Marc-Henri Stern
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-01
Series:npj Genomic Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41525-017-0008-5