Table 3 Number of NMSC cases and controlsa in each of the combined data sets

From: Height, height-related SNPs, and risk of non-melanoma skin cancer

 

BCC

SCC

Data set

cases

controls

cases

controls

Affymetrix

1781

4304

247

4500

Illumina

1055

1929

134

2029

OmniExpress

1062

2297

146

2433

Total

3898

8530

527

8962

  1. Abbreviations: BCC=basal cell carcinoma; HPFS=Health Professionals Follow-up Study; NHS=Nurses’ Health Study; NMSC=non-melanoma skin cancer; SCC=squamous cell carcinoma.
  2. a1976 and 1986 were considered baseline years for the NHS and the HPFS respectively. Baseline cancer cases were excluded. Skin cancer cases who had diagnosis of other common cancers before diagnosis of skin cancers were excluded; controls who had other cancers were excluded.
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