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Genome-wide association study of lung cancer in Korean non-smoking women.
Journal of Korean medical science - 1 Jun 2013
Kim Jin Hee, Park Kyunghee, Yim Seon-Hee, Choi Jin Eun, Sung Jae Sook, Park Ju-Yeon, Choi Yi Young, Jeon Hyo-Sung, Park Jae Yong, Yoon Hyoung Kyu, Kim Yeul Hong, Yoo Byung Su, Kim Young Tae, Hu Hae-Jin, Chung Yeun-Jun, Kim Ho, Sung Sook Whan, Hong Yun-Chul
Abstract excerpt
Lung cancer in never-smokers ranks as the seventh most common cause of cancer death worldwide, and the incidence of lung cancer in non-smoking Korean women appears to be steadily increasing. To identify the effect of genetic polymorphisms on lung cancer risk in non-smoking Korean women, we conducted a genome-wide association study of Korean female non-smokers with lung cancer. We analyzed 440,794 genotype data of...
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