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A childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia genome-wide association study identifies novel sex-specific risk variants.
Medicine - 1 Nov 2016
Singh Sandeep K, Lupo Philip J, Scheurer Michael E, Saxena Anshul, Kennedy Amy E, Ibrahimou Boubakari, Barbieri Manuel Alejandro, Mills Ken I, McCauley Jacob L, Okcu Mehmet Fatih, Dorak Mehmet Tevfik
Abstract excerpt
Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) occurs more frequently in males. Reasons behind sex differences in childhood ALL risk are unknown. In the present genome-wide association study (GWAS), we explored the genetic basis of sex differences by comparing genotype frequencies between male and female cases in a case-only study to assess effect-modification by sex.The case-only design included 236 incident cases...
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