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Pathway analysis for genome-wide association study of basal cell carcinoma of the skin.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Zhang Mingfeng, Liang Liming, Xu Mousheng, Qureshi Abrar A, Han Jiali
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recently, a pathway-based approach has been developed to evaluate the cumulative contribution of the functionally related genes for genome-wide association studies (GWASs), which may help utilize GWAS data to a greater extent. METHODS: In this study, we applied this approach for the GWAS of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the skin. We first conducted the BCC GWAS among 1,797 BCC cases and 5,197 controls...
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