One thousand genomes imputation in the national cancer institute breast and prostate cancer cohort consortium aggressive prostate cancer genome-wide association study

Prostate

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 677-689

  MacHiela, Mitchell J ^a,b   Chen, Constance ^a   Liang, Liming ^a   Diver, W Ryan ^c   Stevens, Victoria L ^c   Tsilidis, Konstantinos K ^d,e   Haiman, Christopher A ^f   Chanock, Stephen J ^b   Hunter, David J ^a,g   Kraft, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

association; fine mapping; rare variants

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COST; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (U.S.); PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876293074     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: 10970045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pros.22608     Document Type: Article

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