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Genome-wide association and expression quantitative trait loci studies identify multiple susceptibility loci for thyroid cancer

Authors :
Ho-Young Son
Yul Hwangbo
Seong-Keun Yoo
Sun-Wha Im
San Duk Yang
Soo-Jung Kwak
Min Seon Park
Soo Heon Kwak
Sun Wook Cho
Jun Sun Ryu
Jeongseon Kim
Yuh-Seog Jung
Tae Hyun Kim
Su-jin Kim
Kyu Eun Lee
Do Joon Park
Nam Han Cho
Joohon Sung
Jeong-Sun Seo
Eun Kyung Lee
Young Joo Park
Jong-Il Kim
Source :
Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Nature Portfolio, 2017.

Abstract

Thyroid cancer is the most common cancer in Korea but previous genome-wide association studies on risk loci have been conducted only in Europeans. Here the authors identify three previously reported loci and seven putatively new loci in the Korean population.

Subjects

Subjects :
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20411723
Volume :
8
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Nature Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.bf35f2fd18a84e21b590a1c21666ffb0
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15966