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Identification of Mitochondrial DNA Variants Associated With Risk of Neuroblastoma.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 13 Jun 2022
Chang Xiao, Liu Yichuan, Glessner Joseph, Hou Cuiping, Qu Huiqi, Nguyen Kenny, Sleiman Patrick, Lee Lobin, Diskin Sharon J, Maris John M, Hakonarson Hakon
Abstract excerpt
Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer that originates in the developing sympathetic nervous system. We previously reported a crucial role of mitochondrial DNA haplogroups in the pathology of neuroblastoma. To pinpoint mitochondrial DNA variants associated with neuroblastoma risk, we applied a mitochondrial genome imputation pipeline to the single nucleotide polymorphisms array data of 2 pediatric cohorts containing...
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