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Quantitative assessment of the influence of common variations on 6p21 and lung cancer risk.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Jan 2014
TanTai Jicheng, Shen Yuzhou, Zhao Heng
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies have identified 6p21 as a new lung cancer susceptibility locus in populations of European descent. Since then, the relationship between common variations on 6p21 and lung cancer has been reported in various ethnic groups; however, these studies have yielded inconsistent results. To investigate this inconsistency, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 studies involving a total of...
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