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Type 2 diabetes risk variants and colorectal cancer risk: the Multiethnic Cohort and PAGE studies.
Gut - 1 Dec 2011
Cheng Iona, Caberto Christian P, Lum-Jones Annette, Seifried Ann, Wilkens Lynne R, Schumacher Fredrick R, Monroe Kristine R, Lim Unhee, Tiirikainen Maarit, Kolonel Laurence N, Henderson Brian E, Stram Daniel O, Haiman Christopher A, Le Marchand Loïc
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BACKGROUND: Diabetes has been positively associated with the risk of colorectal cancer. This study investigated whether recently established risk variants for diabetes also have effects on colorectal cancer. METHODS: 19 single nucleotide repeats (SNPs) associated with type 2 diabetes in genome-wide association studies were tested in a case-control study of 2011 colorectal cancer cases and 6049 controls nested in...
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