Variants in the TERT Gene Increase the Occurrence of Solar Lentigines by Modifying Telomerase Expression Exclusively in the Skin

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
• ² Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
• ³ Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
• ⁴ Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Berlin, Germany.
• ⁵ Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
• ⁷ Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany; Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: christina.lill@uni-muenster.de.