A Web-based database of genetic association studies in cutaneous melanoma enhanced with network-driven data

Emmanouil I Athanasiadis1, Kyriaki Antonopoulou1, Foteini Chatzinasiou1

  • 1Center of Systems Biology, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Soranou Ephessiou 4, 115 27 Athens, GR, Greece, Department of Dermatology, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Andreas Sygros Hospital, Ι. Dragoumi 5, 161 21 Athens, GR, Greece, Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Group, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße 63-73, 14195 Berlin, DE, Germany, Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, DE, Germany, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, GR, Greece, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, W2 1PG, London, UK, Department of Medicine Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA, Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA and Department of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus, London, UK.

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