Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies four new susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer.

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Published in Nat Genet on November 16, 2008

Authors

COGENT Study, Richard S Houlston1, Emily Webb, Peter Broderick, Alan M Pittman, Maria Chiara Di Bernardo, Steven Lubbe, Ian Chandler, Jayaram Vijayakrishnan, Kate Sullivan, Steven Penegar, Colorectal Cancer Association Study Consortium, Luis Carvajal-Carmona, Kimberley Howarth, Emma Jaeger, Sarah L Spain, Axel Walther, Ella Barclay, Lynn Martin, Maggie Gorman, Enric Domingo, Ana S Teixeira, CoRGI Consortium, David Kerr, Jean-Baptiste Cazier, Iina Niittymäki, Sari Tuupanen, Auli Karhu, Lauri A Aaltonen, Ian P M Tomlinson, Susan M Farrington, Albert Tenesa, James G D Prendergast, Rebecca A Barnetson, Roseanne Cetnarskyj, Mary E Porteous, Paul D P Pharoah, Thibaud Koessler, Jochen Hampe, Stephan Buch, Clemens Schafmayer, Jurgen Tepel, Stefan Schreiber, Henry Völzke, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Hoffmeister, Hermann Brenner, Brent W Zanke, Alexandre Montpetit, Thomas J Hudson, Steven Gallinger, Harry Campbell, Malcolm G Dunlop

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK. richard.houlston@icr.ac.uk

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