In addition, there was some evidence of publication bias in the meta-analysis, and meta-analyses of the studies with large sample size did not find the obvious association between XPCLys939Gln polymorphism and cutaneous melanoma risk in Caucasians.
We investigated the role of three polymorphic alleles of the DNA repair gene XPC in a hospital-based case-control study of 294 Caucasian patients from Germany who had cutaneous melanoma and 375 healthy cancer-free sex-matched Caucasian control subjects from the same area.
We investigated the role of three variant alleles of the DNA repair gene XPC and one variant allele of the XPG gene in a hospital-based case-control study of 294 Caucasian patients from Germany with malignant melanoma and 375 healthy control individuals from the same area matched by sex.