Identification of nine new susceptibility loci for testicular cancer, including variants near DAZL and PRDM14

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 686-689

  Ruark, Elise ^a   Seal, Sheila ^a   McDonald, Heather ^a   Zhang, Feng ^a   Elliot, Anna ^a   Lau, Kingwai ^a   Perdeaux, Elizabeth ^a   Rapley, Elizabeth ^a   Eeles, Rosalind ^a,b   Peto, Julian ^c   Kote Jarai, Zsofia ^a   Muir, Kenneth ^d   Nsengimana, Jeremie ^e   Shipley, Janet ^a   Bishop, D Timothy ^e   Stratton, Michael R ^f   Easton, Douglas F ^g   Huddart, Robert A ^a   Rahman, Nazneen ^a   Turnbull, Clare ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^g IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAZL PROTEIN; PRDM14 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TESTIS CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM;

GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RISK FACTORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84878721081     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2635     Document Type: Article

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