Publication Date:
2015-07-09
Description:
Article Previous studies have shown that both rare pathogenic mutations and common genetic variants contribute to the familial risk of developing colorectal cancer. Here, the authors carry out a two-stage genome-wide association study and identify six new loci associated with colorectal cancer. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms8138 Authors: Fredrick R. Schumacher, Stephanie L. Schmit, Shuo Jiao, Christopher K. Edlund, Hansong Wang, Ben Zhang, Li Hsu, Shu-Chen Huang, Christopher P. Fischer, John F. Harju, Gregory E. Idos, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Frank J. Manion, Kevin McDonnell, Caroline E. McNeil, Marilena Melas, Hedy S. Rennert, Wei Shi, Duncan C. Thomas, David J. Van Den Berg, Carolyn M. Hutter, Aaron K. Aragaki, Katja Butterbach, Bette J. Caan, Christopher S. Carlson, Stephen J. Chanock, Keith R. Curtis, Charles S. Fuchs, Manish Gala, Edward L. Giocannucci, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Richard B. Hayes, Brian Henderson, David J. Hunter, Rebecca D. Jackson, Laurence N. Kolonel, Charles Kooperberg, Sebastian Kury, Andrea LaCroix, Cathy C. Laurie, Cecelia A. Laurie, Mathiew Lemire, David Levine, Jing Ma, Karen W. Makar, Conghui Qu, Darin Taverna, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Kana Wu, Suminori Kono, Dee W. West, Sonja I. Berndt, Stéphane Bezieau, Hermann Brenner, Peter T. Campbell, Andrew T. Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Gerhard A. Coetzee, David V. Conti, David Duggan, Jane C. Figueiredo, Barbara K. Fortini, Steven J. Gallinger, W. James Gauderman, Graham Giles, Roger Green, Robert Haile, Tabitha A. Harrison, Michael Hoffmeister, John L. Hopper, Thomas J. Hudson, Eric Jacobs, Motoki Iwasaki, Sun Ha Jee, Mark Jenkins, Wei-Hua Jia, Amit Joshi, Li Li, Noralene M. Lindor, Keitaro Matsuo, Victor Moreno, Bhramar Mukherjee, Polly A. Newcomb, John D. Potter, Leon Raskin, Gad Rennert, Stephanie Rosse, Gianluca Severi, Robert E. Schoen, Daniela Seminara, Xiao-Ou Shu, Martha L. Slattery, Shoichiro Tsugane, Emily White, Yong-Bing Xiang, Brent W. Zanke, Wei Zheng, Loic Le Marchand, Graham Casey, Stephen B. Gruber, Ulrike Peters
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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