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Differences in somatic mutation landscape of hepatocellular carcinoma in Asian American and European American populations.
Oncotarget - 28 Jun 2016
Yao Song, Johnson Christopher, Hu Qiang, Yan Li, Liu Biao, Ambrosone Christine B, Wang Jianmin, Liu Song
Abstract excerpt
The incidence rate of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is higher in populations of Asian ancestry than European ancestry (EA). We sought to investigate HCC mutational differences between the two populations, which may reflect differences in the prevalence of etiological factors. We compared HCC somatic mutations in patients of self-reported Asian American and EA from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), and assessed...
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