Association of Melanocortin-1 Receptor Variants with Pigmentary Traits in Humans: A Pooled Analysis from the M-Skip Project

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
• ² Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Immunology, University of Murcia and IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain.
• ³ Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
• ⁴ The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA.
• ⁶ Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Genoa, Italy; IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, Genoa, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Dermatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Melanoma Unit, Dermatology Department, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, CIBER de Enfermedades Raras, Spain.
• ¹¹ Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute2, Tampa, Florida, USA.
• ¹² Skin Research Department, POLA Chemical Industries, Yokohama, Japan.
• ¹³ Department of medical oncology and hematology, Fundación Investigación Clínico de Valencia Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria- INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain.
• ¹⁴ Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Dermatology, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
• ¹⁶ NHS Forth Valley, UK.
• ¹⁷ First Department of Dermatology, Andreas Sygros Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁸ Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
• ¹⁹ Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
• ²⁰ International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France.
• ²¹ Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Melvin & Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
• ²² School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
• ²³ Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ²⁴ Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: sara.raimondi@ieo.it.