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SUBMITTER: Sallah N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5870407 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sallah N N Carstensen T T Wakeham K K Bagni R R Labo N N Pollard M O MO Gurdasani D D Ekoru K K Pomilla C C Young E H EH Fatumo S S Asiki G G Kamali A A Sandhu M M Kellam P P Whitby D D Barroso I I Newton R R
Global health, epidemiology and genomics 20171127
Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infects 95% of the global population and is associated with up to 2% of cancers globally. Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels to EBV have been shown to be heritable and associated with developing malignancies. We, therefore, performed a pilot genome-wide association analysis of anti-EBV IgG traits in an African population, using a combined approach including array genotyping, whole-genome sequencing and imputation to a panel with African sequence data. In 1562 Ugandan ...[more]