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Most lung and colon cancer susceptibility genes are pair-wise linked in mice, humans and rats.
PloS one - 24 Feb 2011
Quan Lei, Stassen Alphons P M, Ruivenkamp Claudia A L, van Wezel Tom, Fijneman Remond J A, Hutson Alan, Kakarlapudi Neelima, Hart Augustinus A M, Demant Peter
Abstract excerpt
Genetic predisposition controlled by susceptibility quantitative trait loci (QTLs) contributes to a large proportion of common cancers. Studies of genetics of cancer susceptibility, however, did not address systematically the relationship between susceptibility to cancers in different organs. We present five sets of data on genetic architecture of colon and lung cancer susceptibility in mice, humans and rats....
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