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SUBMITTER: Al Olama AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4383163 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature genetics 20140914 10
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 76 variants associated with prostate cancer risk predominantly in populations of European ancestry. To identify additional susceptibility loci for this common cancer, we conducted a meta-analysis of > 10 million SNPs in 43,303 prostate cancer cases and 43,737 controls from studies in populations of European, African, Japanese and Latino ancestry. Twenty-three new susceptibility loci were identified at association P < 5 × 10(-8); 15 variants ...[more]