A genome-wide association scan of tag SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for colorectal cancer at 8q24.21

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 984-988

  Tomlinson, Ian ^a,b   Webb, Emily ^c   Carvajal Carmona, Luis ^a   Broderick, Peter ^c   Kemp, Zoe ^a   Spain, Sarah ^a   Penegar, Steven ^c   Chandler, Ian ^c   Gorman, Maggie ^a   Wood, Wendy ^c   Barclay, Ella ^a   Lubbe, Steven ^c   Martin, Lynn ^a   Sellick, Gabrielle ^c   Jaeger, Emma ^a   Hubner, Richard ^c   Wild, Ruth ^c   Rowan, Andrew ^a   Fielding, Sarah ^c   Howarth, Kimberley ^a   Silver, Andrew ^b   Atkin, Wendy ^d   Muir, Kenneth ^e   Logan, Richard ^e   Kerr, David ^f   Johnstone, Elaine ^f   Sieber, Oliver ^g   Gray, Richard ^h   Thomas, Huw ^d   Peto, Julian ^c,i   Cazier, Jean Baptiste ^a   Houlston, Richard ^c   more..

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME 8Q; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 34547498546     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng2085     Document Type: Article

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