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No association between Parkinson disease alleles and the risk of melanoma.

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Meng, S; Song, F; Chen, H; Gao, X; Amos, CI; Lee, JE; Wei, Q; Qureshi, AA; Han, J
Published in: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
January 2012

BACKGROUND: Recent data showed that melanoma was more common among patients with Parkinson disease than individuals without Parkinson disease and vice versa. It has been hypothesized that these two diseases may share common genetic and environmental risk factors. METHODS: We evaluated the association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) selected on the basis of recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on Parkinson disease risk and the risk of melanoma using 2,297 melanoma cases and 6,651 controls. RESULTS: The Parkinson disease SNP rs156429 in the chromosome 7p15 region was nominally associated with melanoma risk with P value of 0.04, which was not significant after the Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons. No association was observed between the remaining 31 Parkinson disease SNPs and the risk of melanoma. The genetic score based on the number of Parkinson disease risk allele was not associated with melanoma risk [OR for the highest genetic score quartile (30-35) vs. the lowest (15-20), 1.13, 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.47-2.70]. CONCLUSION: The Parkinson disease SNPs identified in published GWAS do not seem to play an important role in melanoma development. IMPACT: The Parkinson disease susceptibility loci discovered by GWAS contribute little to the observed epidemiologic association between the Parkinson disease and melanoma.

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Published In

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev

DOI

EISSN

1538-7755

Publication Date

January 2012

Volume

21

Issue

1

Start / End Page

243 / 245

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Risk Factors
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Parkinson Disease
  • Melanoma
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease
  • Epidemiology
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Alleles
 

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Meng, S., Song, F., Chen, H., Gao, X., Amos, C. I., Lee, J. E., … Han, J. (2012). No association between Parkinson disease alleles and the risk of melanoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 21(1), 243–245. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0905
Meng, Shasha, Fengju Song, Honglei Chen, Xiang Gao, Christopher I. Amos, Jeffrey E. Lee, Qingyi Wei, Abrar A. Qureshi, and Jiali Han. “No association between Parkinson disease alleles and the risk of melanoma.Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21, no. 1 (January 2012): 243–45. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0905.
Meng S, Song F, Chen H, Gao X, Amos CI, Lee JE, et al. No association between Parkinson disease alleles and the risk of melanoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2012 Jan;21(1):243–5.
Meng, Shasha, et al. “No association between Parkinson disease alleles and the risk of melanoma.Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, vol. 21, no. 1, Jan. 2012, pp. 243–45. Pubmed, doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0905.
Meng S, Song F, Chen H, Gao X, Amos CI, Lee JE, Wei Q, Qureshi AA, Han J. No association between Parkinson disease alleles and the risk of melanoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2012 Jan;21(1):243–245.

Published In

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev

DOI

EISSN

1538-7755

Publication Date

January 2012

Volume

21

Issue

1

Start / End Page

243 / 245

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Risk Factors
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Parkinson Disease
  • Melanoma
  • Humans
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease
  • Epidemiology
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Alleles