Normal allele: GG
A variant of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor gene responsible for a significant proportion of the risk of malignant melanoma of the skin
Polymorphism rs2228479 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
8944016 Val92Met variant of the melanocyte stimulating hormone receptor gene.
11487574 The melanocortin-1-receptor gene is the major freckle gene.
17999355 A genomewide association study of skin pigmentation in a South Asian population.
20042077 Genetic determinants of hair and eye colours in the Scottish and Danish populations.
20158590 Predicting phenotype from genotype: normal pigmentation.
21197618 Model-based prediction of human hair color using DNA variants.
22629401 Evaluation of genetic markers as instruments for Mendelian randomization studies on vitamin D.
23744330 [Association study of MC1R gene polymorphisms with freckles in Chinese Han population from Chengdu].
26547235 Crowdsourced direct-to-consumer genomic analysis of a family quartet.
26826707 The Effects of Sequence Variation on Genome-wide NRF2 Binding--New Target Genes and Regulatory SNPs.
27084066 MC1R variants in Han Chinese patients with sporadic Parkinson's disease.
28059796 A common variant of the MC1R gene (p.V92M) is associated with the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
30657907 A study in scarlet: MC1R as the main predictor of red hair and exemplar of the flip-flop effect.
32835660 GWAS Analysis of 17,019 Korean Women Identifies the Variants Associated with Facial Pigmented Spots.
34698109 MC1R Is a Prognostic Marker and Its Expression Is Correlated with MSI in Colorectal Cancer.
35188998 MC1R diversity and its role in skin pigmentation variation in West Maharashtra, India.