Jennifer Y. Lin

TL;DR: Pigmentation mutants in various species are highly informative about basic genetic and developmental pathways, and provide important clues to the processes of photoprotection, cancer predisposition and even human evolution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided biochemical and genetic evidence demonstrating that UV induction of POMC/MSH in skin is directly controlled by p53 and that absence of p53, as in knockout mice, is associated with absence of the UV-tanning response.

TL;DR: The ongoing VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL) is a large randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 2 x 2 factorial trial of vitamin D and marine omega-3 fatty acids in the primary prevention of cancer and CVD among a multi-ethnic population of 20,000 U.S. men aged ≥ 50 and women aged ≥ 55.

TL;DR: In the Women's Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study (WACS) as mentioned in this paper, a double-blind, placebo-controlled 2 × 2 x 2x 2 factorial trial of vitamin C (500 mg of ascorbic acid daily), natural-source vitamin E (600 IU of alpha-tocopherol every other day), and beta carotene (50 mg every other daily), 7627 women who were free of cancer before random assignment were selected for this study.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated total calcium and vitamin D intake in relation to breast cancer incidence among 10,578 premenopausal and 20,909 postmenopausal women 45 years or older who were free of cancer and cardiovascular disease at baseline.