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Phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) of colorectal cancer risk SNP effects on health outcomes in UK Biobank.
British journal of cancer - 1 Mar 2022
Zhang Xiaomeng, Li Xue, He Yazhou, Law Philip J, Farrington Susan M, Campbell Harry, Tomlinson Ian P M, Houlston Richard S, Dunlop Malcolm G, Timofeeva Maria, Theodoratou Evropi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Associations between colorectal cancer (CRC) and other health outcomes have been reported, but these may be subject to biases, or due to limitations of observational studies. METHODS: We set out to determine whether genetic predisposition to CRC is also associated with the risk of other phenotypes. Under the phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) and tree-structured phenotypic model (TreeWAS), we...
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