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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2017 Jun 1;141(4):721–730. doi: 10.1002/ijc.30785

Table 1.

Meta-analysis of five validated SNPs using two published melanoma GWAS datasets

SNP Gene Position Allelea MDACC (n=858)b Harvard (n=494)c Meta-analysis



EAF HR (95%CI) P FPRP EAF HR (95%CI) P P-het I2 HR (95%CI) P
rs7555155d RHOU 1q42.13 C/T 0.49 0.59 (0.44–0.80) 0.001 0.024 0.50 0.65 (0.44–0.98) 0.039 0.700 0 0.61 (0.48–0.78) 6.63E-05
rs10916352e RHOU 1q42.13 G/C 0.50 1.48 (1.11–1.98) 0.008 0.118 0.50 1.51 (1.01–2.25) 0.046 0.949 0 1.49 (1.18–1.88) 9.04E-04
rs3851552d ARHGAP22 10q11.22 T/C 0.35 1.45 (1.08–1.96) 0.015 0.184 0.36 1.61 (1.07–2.43) 0.024 0.691 0 1.50 (1.18–1.91) 9.58E-04
rs72635537e ARHGAP44 17p12 C/T 0.08 1.99 (1.28–3.11) 0.002 0.170 0.11 1.90 (1.12–3.24) 0.018 0.897 0 1.96 (1.39–2.75) 1.21E-04
rs7826362e ARHGEF10 8p23.3 C/T 0.31 1.48 (1.08–2.03) 0.015 0.196 0.29 1.58 (1.07–2.35) 0.022 0.790 0 1.52 (1.19–1.94) 8.47E-04

Abbreviations: SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism; GWAS, genome-wide association study; MDACC, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; EAF, effect allele frequency; HR, hazards ratio; FPRP, false positive report probability; CI, confidence interval; Phet, P value for heterogeneity by Cochrane’s Q test.

a

Reference allele/effect allele.

b

Adjusted for age, sex, Breslow thickness, stage, ulceration, and mitotic rate in the additive model.

c

Adjusted for age and sex in the additive model.

d

Genotyped SNP in the MDACC study.

e

Imputed SNP in the MDACC study.