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Genome-wide association studies of cancer.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 20 Sept 2010
Stadler Zsofia K, Thom Peter, Robson Mark E, Weitzel Jeffrey N, Kauff Noah D, Hurley Karen E, Devlin Vincent, Gold Bert, Klein Robert J, Offit Kenneth
Abstract excerpt
Knowledge of the inherited risk for cancer is an important component of preventive oncology. In addition to well-established syndromes of cancer predisposition, much remains to be discovered about the genetic variation underlying susceptibility to common malignancies. Increased knowledge about the human genome and advances in genotyping technology have made possible genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of human...
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