Saturday, October 26, 2013

Skin Cancer Risk?

My DNA report says this....                   

Squamous cell carcinoma

 
JournalCancer Res
Study Size
ReplicationsNone
Contrary StudiesNone
Applicable EthnicitiesEuropean
Markerrs12203592
In this study, researchers compared 537 individuals with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) to 1504 healthy controls, all of European descent. The researchers found that each copy of a T at rs12203592 within the IRF4 gene was associated with about 1.7 times higher odds of SCC.
WhoGenotypeWhat It Means
                           
Gregory Thompson
    
    TT

Substantially higher odds of developing SCC.

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