Gene-wide association study between the aromatase gene (CYP19A1) and female pattern hair loss

L Yip; S Zaloumis; D Irwin; G Severi; J Hopper; G Giles; S Harrap; R Sinclair; J Ellis

Journal article

Gene-wide association study between the aromatase gene (CYP19A1) and female pattern hair loss

L Yip, S Zaloumis, D Irwin, G Severi, J Hopper, G Giles, S Harrap, R Sinclair, J Ellis

British Journal of Dermatology | WILEY | Published : 2009

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2009.09186.x

University of Melbourne Researchers

Graham Giles Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Stephen Harrap Author Anatomy and Physiology

Rodney Sinclair Author Medicine - St Vincent's Hospital

John Hopper Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Gianluca Severi Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

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Funding Acknowledgements

We wish to acknowledge Ms Angela Lamantia and Dr Shannon Harrison for their assistance with DNA extractions, Dr David Muller for his assistance with selection of subjects from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS), the medical photography centre at The Skin and Cancer Foundation of Victoria, and Dr Katrina Scurrah for her advice on statistical analysis. We also thank all the participants who took part in this study. We gratefully acknowledge Epiderm (formerly the Australasian Dermatology Research and Education Foundation) for funding of this study. The MCCS is supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (grants 209057, 251533, 396414, 504711). Cohort recruitment and follow-up is funded by The Cancer Council Victoria.