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SUBMITTER: Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4522048 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hematology/oncology clinics of North America 20150801 4
Given the changing demographics of Western populations, the numbers of pancreatic cancer cases are projected to increase during the next decade. Diabetes, recent cigarette smoking, and excess body weight are the cancer's most consistent risk factors. The search for common and rare germline variants that influence risk of pancreatic cancer through genome-wide association studies and high-throughput-sequencing-based studies is underway and holds the promise of increasing the knowledge of variants ...[more]