Barrett JH

ORCID: 0000-0002-1720-7724 · 6 papers in corpus · active 2011-2020
2020
Nature communications ·doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16590-1

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified ~20 melanoma susceptibility loci, most of which are not functionally characterized. Here we report an approach integrating massively-parallel reporter assays (MPRA) with cell-type-speci…

2015
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/ng.3373

Thirteen common susceptibility loci have been reproducibly associated with cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM). We report the results of an international 2-stage meta-analysis of CMM genome-wide association studies (GWAS). This meta-analysis…

2014
Journal of the National Cancer Institute ·doi:10.1093/jnci/dju267

Telomere length has been associated with risk of many cancers, but results are inconsistent. Seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously associated with mean leukocyte telomere length were either genotyped or well-imputed in 111…

2013
Carcinogenesis ·doi:10.1093/carcin/bgs407

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have mainly focused on top significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), most of which did not have clear biological functions but were just surrogates for unknown causal variants. Studying SNPs…

2013
Pigment cell & melanoma research ·doi:10.1111/pcmr.12069

To mine possibly hidden causal single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of melanoma, we investigated the association of SNPs in 76 M/G1 transition genes with melanoma risk using our published genome-wide association study (GWAS) data set with…

2011
Human molecular genetics ·doi:10.1093/hmg/ddr415

We performed a multistage genome-wide association study of melanoma. In a discovery cohort of 1804 melanoma cases and 1026 controls, we identified loci at chromosomes 15q13.1 (HERC2/OCA2 region) and 16q24.3 (MC1R) regions that reached genom…