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Search for cancer risk factors with microarray-based genome-wide association studies.
Technology in cancer research & treatment - 1 Apr 2010
Zhang Lina, Zhang Wei, Chen Kexin
Abstract excerpt
Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have emerged as a powerful approach to identify genetic polymorphisms that are associated with risk of developing cancer and other complex diseases. Currently, microarrays are the genotype screening technology of choice in GWASs because they permit interrogation of more than one-million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at the same time. Many novel loci and...
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