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SUBMITTER: Deng J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5688099 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20171116 1
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is a major histological type of esophageal cancer, with distinct incidence and survival patterns among races. Although previous studies have characterized somatic mutations in this disease, a rigorous comparison between different patient populations has not been conducted. Here we sequence the samples of 316 Chinese patients, combine them with those from The Cancer Genome Atlas, and perform a comparative analysis between Asian and Caucasian patients. We find th ...[more]