title: Melanoma genetics: an update on risk-associated genes.
abstract: The past 15 years have seen rapid advances in both our understanding of hereditary melanoma genetics and the technologies that enable scientists to make discoveries. Despite great efforts by many groups worldwide, other high-risk melanoma loci besides CDKN2A still remain elusive. A panel of polymorphisms that appears to confer low-to-moderate risk for melanoma has been assembled through functional and genome-wide association studies. The goal of personalized melanoma risk prediction is within our reach, although true clinical use has yet to be established.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Edwards 211, 50 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
authors.forename: Durga
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Udayakumar
authors.forename: Hensin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D002648:Child; D052138:Genes, Neoplasm; D016161:Genes, Retinoblastoma; D019942:Genes, p16; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D018095:Germ-Line Mutation; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D009386:Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary / Q000235:genetics; D044102:Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 1 / Q000235:genetics; D012306:Risk; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D014983:Xeroderma Pigmentosum / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D044102:Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 1