Article
Familial aggregation of glioma: a pooled analysis.
American journal of epidemiology - 15 Nov 2010
Scheurer Michael E, Etzel Carol J, Liu Mei, Barnholtz-Sloan Jill, Wiklund Fredrik, Tavelin Björn, Wrensch Margaret R, Melin Beatrice S, Bondy Melissa L
Abstract excerpt
In genome-wide association studies, inherited risk of glioma has been demonstrated for rare familial syndromes and with common variants from 3-5 chromosomal regions. To assess the degree of familial aggregation of glioma, the authors performed a pooled analysis of data from 2 large glioma case-control studies in the United States (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas (1994-2006) and University of California,...
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