“California girls, they’re unforgettable. Daisy dukes,
bikinis on top! Sun kissed skin, so hot they’ll melt your popsicle.” – Katy
Perry.
This sun kiss skin that she speaks
of is what most teenagers dream for; however, scientist have found out that it
is more prevalent to cause the skin cancer melanoma. A team of researchers led
by Santos Alonso, have found that the allele V60L is associated with fair skin.
We also know that Vitamin D is needed to reduce sunlight. However, the increase
of vitamin d can also create that sun kissed skin. The team did its study by
analyzing 1000 genomes from the genome project. The final results was that there
is a correlation between the allele V60L and its increase risk of melanoma
cancer. I think if more evidence could be proved than people will be more aware of the risk of cancer through tanning. Hopefully, more articles like this will allow for the public to understand the trade off for fair-skin and melanoma cancer.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/266302.php
http://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-information/melanoma
Nice intro, I wrote a post that was also about melanoma and I see a correlation between the information in both of our articles. Your article talks about the V60 allele as being a marker for increased melanoma risk. In my article it talks about the BRAF gene in which roughly 50% of melanoma cases display a mutation on this gene. This BRAF gene affects the phosphorylation of the S6 protein. What may be happening is that prolonged exposure to UV light from the sun or tanning systems, causes the mutation in these genes which then alter specific proteins.
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