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SUBMITTER: Manichaikul A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7523187 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of cancer 20191008 11
Women of African ancestry have lower incidence of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) yet worse survival compared to women of European ancestry. We conducted a genome-wide association study in African ancestry women with 755 EOC cases, including 537 high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas (HGSOC) and 1,235 controls. We identified four novel loci with suggestive evidence of association with EOC (p < 1 × 10<sup>-6</sup> ), including rs4525119 (intronic to AKR1C3), rs7643459 (intronic to LOC101927394), rs ...[more]