TNKS2, tankyrase 2, 80351

N. diseases: 25; N. variants: 4
Disease: Carcinoma, Basal Cell ×
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C4721806
Disease: Carcinoma, Basal Cell
Carcinoma, Basal Cell 		0.010 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We evaluated the associations between 39 SNPs, including 38 tag-SNPs in telomere-related genes (TERT, TRF1, TRF2, TNKS2, and POT1) and one SNP (rs401681) in the TERT-CLPTM1L locus which has been identified as a susceptibility locus to skin cancer in the previous GWAS, and the risk of skin cancer in a case-control study of Caucasians nested within the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) among 218 melanoma cases, 285 squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cases, 300 basal cell carcinoma (BCC) cases, and 870 controls. 21116649 2011