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Genome-wide germline analyses on cancer susceptibility and GeMDBJ database: Gastric cancer as an example.
Cancer science - 1 Jul 2010
Yoshida Teruhiko, Ono Hiroe, Kuchiba Aya, Saeki Norihisa, Sakamoto Hiromi
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The power of an SNP-based genome-wide association study (GWAS) was first demonstrated in Japan using the JSNP database and is currently a major strategy adopted around the world for a number of common diseases including cancers. The hypothesis-free strategy can lead us to a novel hypothesis for carcinogenesis and may contribute to identifying a high risk group for research and, in the future, practice of...
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