A genome-wide scan of 10000 gene-centric variants and colorectal cancer risk

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1507-1514

  Webb, Emily ^a   Broderick, Peter ^a   Lubbe, Steven ^a   Chandler, Ian ^a   Tomlinson, Ian ^b   Houlston, Richard S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NULL ALLELE; PATHOGENESIS; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK;

EID: 70350366112     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.92     Document Type: Article

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