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- David L. Duffy1,
- Gu Zhu1,
- Xin Li2,
- Marianna Sanna3,
- Mark Iles4,
- Leonie C. Jacobs5,
- David M. Evans6,7,
- Seyhan Yazar8,
- Jonathan Beesley1,
- Matthew Law1,
- Peter Kraft2,
- Alessia Visconti3,
- John C. Taylor4,
- Fan Lui9,
- Margaret J. Wright1,
- Anjali K. Henders1,17,
- Lisa Bowdler1,
- Dan Glass3,
- Arfan M. Ikram10,
- André G. Uitterlinden11,
- Pamela A. Madden12,
- Andrew C. Heath12,
- Elliot C. Nelson12,
- Adele C. Green1,13,
- Stephen Chanock14,
- Jennifer H. Barrett4,
- Matthew A. Brown7,
- Nicholas K. Hayward1,
- Stuart MacGregor1,
- Richard A. Sturm15,
- Alex W. Hewitt8,
- Melanoma GWAS Consortium+,
- Manfred Kayser9,
- David J. Hunter2,
- Julia A. Newton Bishop4,
- Timothy D. Spector3,
- Grant W. Montgomery1,17,
- David A. Mackey8,
- George Davey Smith6,
- Tamar E. Nijsten5,
- D. Timothy Bishop4,
- Veronique Bataille3,
- Mario Falchi3,
- Jiali Han16∗,
- Nicholas G. Martin1∗,
- Jeffrey E. Lee19,
- Myriam Brossard20,
- Eric K. Moses21,
- Fengju Song22,
- Rajiv Kumar23,
- Douglas F. Easton24,
- Paul D. P. Pharoah25,
- Anthony J. Swerdlow26,
- Katerina P. Kypreou27,
- Mark Harland28,
- Juliette Randerson-Moor28,
- Lars A. Akslen29,
- Per A. Andresen30,
- Marie-Françoise Avril31,
- Esther Azizi32,
- Giovanna Bianchi Scarrà33,
- Kevin M. Brown34,
- Tadeusz Dębniak35,
- David E. Elder36,
- Shenying Fang19,
- Eitan Friedman37,
- Pilar Galan38,
- Paola Ghiorzo33,
- Elizabeth M. Gillanders39,
- Alisa M. Goldstein34,
- Nelleke A. Gruis40,
- Johan Hansson41,
- Per Helsing42,
- Marko Hočevar43,
- Veronica Höiom41,
- Christian Ingvar44,
- Peter A. Kanetsky45,
- Wei V. Chen46,
- Maria Teresa Landi34,
- Julie Lang47,
- G. Mark Lathrop48,
- Jan Lubiński35,
- Rona M. Mackie49,
- Graham J. Mann50,
- Anders Molven51,
- Srdjan Novaković52,
- Håkan Olsson53,
- Susana Puig54,
- Joan Anton Puig-Butille54,
- Xin Li55,
- Graham L. Radford-Smith56,
- Nienke van der Stoep57,
- Remco van Doorn40,
- David C. Whiteman58,
- Jamie E. Craig59,
- Dirk Schadendorf60,
- Lisa A. Simms57,
- Kathryn P. Burdon61,
- Dale R. Nyholt62,
- Karen A. Pooley24,
- Nicholas Orr63,
- Alexander J. Stratigos27,
- Anne E. Cust64,67,
- Sarah V. Ward21,68,
- Hans-Joachim Schulze65,
- Alison M. Dunning25,
- Florence Demenais20 and
- Christopher I. Amos66
- 1QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
- 2Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- 3Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, St Thomas Hospital Campus, Kings College, London, UK
- 4Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- 5Department of Dermatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 6MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- 7University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
- 8Centre for Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Western Australia and the Lions Eye Institute, Perth, Australia
- 9Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 10Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 11Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 12Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
- 13Molecular Oncology Group, CRUK Manchester Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- 14Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- 15Dermatology Research Centre, University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
- 16Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
- 17Present address: Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- 19Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
- 20Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), UMR-946, Genetic Variation and Human Diseases Unit, Paris, France
- 21Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Western Australia, Australia
- 22Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin, National Clinical Research Center of Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P. R. China
- 23Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, Heidelberg Germany
- 24Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 25Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 26Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- 27Department of Dermatology, University of Athens School of Medicine, Andreas Sygros Hospital, Athens, Greece
- 28Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- 29Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- 30Department of Pathology, Molecular Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- 31Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Cochin, Service de Dermatologie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- 32Department of Dermatology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 33Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
- 34Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- 35International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
- 36Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- 37Oncogenetics Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 38Université Paris 13, Equipe de Recherche en Epidémiologie Nutritionnelle (EREN), Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Statistiques, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM U1153), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA U1125), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Communauté ďUniversité Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-93017 Bobigny, France
- 39Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- 40Department of Dermatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
- 41Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- 42Department of Dermatology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- 43Department of Surgical Oncology, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 44Department of Surgery, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- 45Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
- 46Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
- 47Department of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- 48McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Canada
- 49Department of Public Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow UK
- 50Centre for Cancer Research, University of Sydney at Westmead, Millennium Institute for Medical Research and Melanoma Institute Australia, Sydney, Australia
- 51Department of Pathology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- 52Department of Molecular Diagnostics, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 53Department of Oncology/Pathology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund; Sweden
- 54Melanoma Unit, Dermatology Department & Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Departments, Hospital Clinic, Institut de Investigacó Biomèdica August Pi Suñe, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- 55Department of Dermatology, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island, USA
- 56Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
- 57Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- 58Cancer Control Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
- 59Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
- 60Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
- 61Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- 62Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- 63Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- 64Cancer Epidemiology and Services Research, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- 65Department of Dermatology, Fachklinik Hornheide, Institute for Tumors of the Skin at the University of Münster, Münster, Germany
- 66Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- 67Present address: Sydney School of Public Health and the Melanoma Institute Australia, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- 68Present address: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
- Corresponding author: David Duffy, Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane Qld 4029, Australia. Phone +61 7 3362 0247. Email David.Duffy{at}qimrberghofer.edu.au.
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