Missing heritability, next-generation genome-wide association studies and primary cancer prevention: An Atlantean illusion?

Future Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 477-480

  Katsios, Christos ^a   Roukos, Dimitrios H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

cancer; genome sequencing; genome wide association studies; missing heritability; prevention

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EPIGENETICS; FAMILIAL CANCER; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; HERITABILITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LUNG CANCER; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING CESSATION; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79953727577     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.11.29     Document Type: Review

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