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SUBMITTER: Palmer AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3460062 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Palmer Andrew J AJ Lochhead Paul P Hold Georgina L GL Rabkin Charles S CS Chow Wong-Ho WH Lissowska Jolanta J Vaughan Thomas L TL Berry Susan S Gammon Marilie M Risch Harvey H El-Omar Emad M EM
European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP) 20121101 6
Recently, two large genome-wide association studies, conducted in Chinese populations, have reported associations between upper gastrointestinal cancer and the rs2274223, rs13042395 and rs4072037 polymorphisms in PLCE1, C20orf54 and MUC1, respectively. We aimed to determine whether similar associations existed for Caucasian populations. We genotyped two population-based, case-control studies of upper gastrointestinal cancer; the first study included 290 gastric cancer (GC) cases and 376 controls ...[more]