Genome-wide assessment of the association of rare and common copy number variations to testicular germ cell cancer

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Edsgärd, Daniel ^a   Dalgaard, Marlene D ^b   Weinhold, Nils ^a   Wesolowska Andersen, Agata ^a   Meyts, Ewa Rajpert De ^a,b   Ottesen, Anne Marie ^b   Juul, Anders ^b   Skakkebæk, Niels E ^b   Jensen, Thomas Skøt ^a   Gupta, Ramneek ^a   Leffers, Henrik ^b   Brunak, Søren ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Copy number variation; Rare variants; Testicular germ cell cancers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874241042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2013.00002     Document Type: Article

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