Comprehensive assessment of genetic and environmental risk factors for melanoma: a population-based family study

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/566946

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Excessive sunlight can cause melanoma, a serious type of skin cancer. However, there are other factors including a person's genetic make-up that are thought to put some people at higher risk. Many 'healthy' people have small changes in their genes that might make them more likely to develop melanoma. We need to know more about these genetic factors. Our study will investigate how particular small genetic changes influence a person's likelihood of developing melanoma.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2010

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $150,679.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Optical technology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

determining genetic susceptibility to disease | early detection of skin cancer | environmental risk factors | familial cancer | genetic epidemiology | genetic polymorphisms | malignant skin melanoma | melanoma | risk factors | statistical genetics

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