A number of subjects were excluded due to the following reasons: multiple-primary melanoma cases (N = 1596), missing data on MC1R variants (N = 1081), non-skin melanoma cases (N = 150), subjects with atypical mole syndrome and no skin cancer (N = 58), non first-primary melanoma cases (N = 24), familial melanoma cases, defined as subjects with two first-degree relatives or three or more any-degree relatives with melanoma (N = 25), other reasons including: unknown case/control status, duplicate subjects, or inappropriate controls (N = 232). This evidence concerns the gene MC1R and skin cancer.