Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types.
The common sequence variants that have recently been associated with cancer risk are particular to a single cancer type or at most two. Following up on our genome-wide scan of basal cell carcinoma, we found that rs401681[C] on chromosome 5p15.33 satisfied our threshold for genome-wide significance (...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2009
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