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Genome-Wide Association Studies of Cancer in Diverse Populations.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Apr 2018
Park Sungshim L, Cheng Iona, Haiman Christopher A
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of cancer have identified more than 700 risk loci, of which approximately 80% were first discovered in European ancestry populations, approximately 15% in East Asians, 3% in multiethnic scans, and less than 1% in African and Latin American populations. These percentages closely mirror the distribution of samples included in the discovery phase of cancer GWAS to date (84%...
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