Normal allele: CC
interferon regulatory factor polymorphism has an age-related effect on the number of nevi and predisposes to melanoma. It is also responsible for predisposition to freckles, red hair and high skin sensitivity to sunlight.
Polymorphism rs12203592 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
19340012 Genome-wide association study of tanning phenotype in a population of European ancestry.
20018015 Elastic-net regularization approaches for genome-wide association studies of rheumatoid arthritis.
20158590 Predicting phenotype from genotype: normal pigmentation.
20463881 Digital quantification of human eye color highlights genetic association of three new loci.
20546537 Genome-wide association studies of pigmentation and skin cancer: a review and meta-analysis.
20585627 Web-based, participant-driven studies yield novel genetic associations for common traits.
20602913 IRF4 variants have age-specific effects on nevus count and predispose to melanoma.
20650817 Functional intronic polymorphisms: Buried treasure awaiting discovery within our genes.
21197618 Model-based prediction of human hair color using DNA variants.
21270109 A germline variant in the interferon regulatory factor 4 gene as a novel skin cancer risk locus.
21674838 Genetic examination of the putative skull of Jan Kochanowski reveals its female sex.
21685912 Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy.
21983787 Genome-wide association study identifies three new melanoma susceptibility loci.
22629401 Evaluation of genetic markers as instruments for Mendelian randomization studies on vitamin D.
23110848 Human pigmentation genes under environmental selection.
23226157 Gender differences in cancer susceptibility: an inadequately addressed issue.
23771755 Improved eye- and skin-color prediction based on 8 SNPs.
24373676 Genetic and neuroanatomic associations in sporadic frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
24880832 Collaborative EDNAP exercise on the IrisPlex system for DNA-based prediction of human eye colour.
24987407 eMERGEing progress in genomics-the first seven years.
25724930 IRF4, MC1R and TYR genes are risk factors for actinic keratosis independent of skin color.
26306600 Puzzling role of genetic risk factors in human longevity: "risk alleles" as pro-longevity variants.
26547235 Crowdsourced direct-to-consumer genomic analysis of a family quartet.
26924531 Fast Principal-Component Analysis Reveals Convergent Evolution of ADH1B in Europe and East Asia.
27468418 Importance of nonsynonymous OCA2 variants in human eye color prediction.
27499155 Genetic markers of pigmentation are novel risk loci for uveal melanoma.
27539887 Genome-wide association study identifies 14 novel risk alleles associated with basal cell carcinoma.
28083618 Cereblon and IRF4 Variants Affect Risk and Response to Treatment in Multiple Myeloma.
28103633 IRF4 rs12203592 functional variant and melanoma survival.
28502801 Genome-Wide Association Shows that Pigmentation Genes Play a Role in Skin Aging.
29054604 Susceptibility Loci-Associated Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Invasiveness.
29315480 Iris pigmented lesions as a marker of cutaneous melanoma risk: an Australian case-control study.
29518100 Associations between sun sensitive pigmentary genes and serum prostate specific antigen levels.
29753029 Inherited Genetic Variants Associated with Melanoma BRAF/NRAS Subtypes.
29974532 Genetic variants associated with skin photosensitivity in a southern European population from Spain.
30520188 Non-genetic and genetic predictors of a superficial first basal cell carcinoma.
31246726 IRF4 rs12203592*T/T genotype is associated with nodular melanoma.
31958143 Association of IRF4 single-nucleotide polymorphism rs12203592 with melanoma-specific survival.
32856602 Association of Known Melanoma Risk Factors with Primary Melanoma of the Scalp and Neck.
33342058 Influence of germline genetic variants on dermoscopic features of melanoma.
34071952 Prediction of Eye Colour in Scandinavians Using the EyeColour 11 (EC11) SNP Set.
34424336 Different Pigmentation Risk Loci for High-Risk Monosomy 3 and Low-Risk Disomy 3 Uveal Melanomas.