Whole Genome Sequencing of acral melanoma

PICR Cancer Research UK Genomics Initiative Policy

To whom it may concern,This document refers to the data sets EGAS00001000472, EGAS00001000474 and EGAS00001000486 which have been submitted to the European Genome Archive (EGA) for the restricted access by legitimate academic institutions that have agreed to comply with the terms of a Data Access Agreement drafted by the Cancer Research UK Genomics Initiative.There are a number of steps that a researcher must take to obtain access to these data and the process is overseen by our Data Access Committee, called Molecular Oncology Group, PICR, headed by Richard Marais (rmarais@picr.man.ac.uk) who is authorized to approve researchers to have encrypted access to the data submitted to the EGA.Please be advised that Simon Furney (sfurney@picr.man.ac.uk) is authorized to upload data to the EGA for archiving and distribution as part of your submission process, which will enable approved researchers to have encrypted access to the data. We can confirm that this submission is consistent with the informed consent of the participants of the study or has been granted ethical approval and is in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations.Yours sincerely, Richard Marais, PhD, FMedSciProfessor of Molecular OncologyDirector, The Paterson Institute for Cancer Research