Functional melanoma-risk variant IRF4 rs12203592 associated with Breslow thickness: a pooled international study of primary melanomas

Abstract

Breslow thickness is considered to be the most important prognostic tumor feature in melanoma patients and is associated with age, sex, and phenotypic risk factors for melanoma such as number of nevi. However, its association with inherited genetic variants in recently identified melanoma risk loci is largely unknown.

In a Western Australian Melanoma Health Study (WAMHS) study, published in the British Journal of Dermatology, IRF4 rs12203592, OCA2 rs1800401 and TP53 rs1042522 were significantly associated (P < 0.05) with Breslow thickness; however, these associations did not pass false discovery.

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