Identification of Genetic Susceptibility Loci for Colorectal Tumors in a Genome-Wide Meta-analysis.

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Published in Gastroenterology on December 22, 2012

Authors

Ulrike Peters1, Shuo Jiao, Fredrick R Schumacher, Carolyn M Hutter, Aaron K Aragaki, John A Baron, Sonja I Berndt, Stéphane Bézieau, Hermann Brenner, Katja Butterbach, Bette J Caan, Peter T Campbell, Christopher S Carlson, Graham Casey, Andrew T Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J Chanock, Lin S Chen, Gerhard A Coetzee, Simon G Coetzee, David V Conti, Keith R Curtis, David Duggan, Todd Edwards, Charles S Fuchs, Steven Gallinger, Edward L Giovannucci, Stephanie M Gogarten, Stephen B Gruber, Robert W Haile, Tabitha A Harrison, Richard B Hayes, Brian E Henderson, Michael Hoffmeister, John L Hopper, Thomas J Hudson, David J Hunter, Rebecca D Jackson, Sun Ha Jee, Mark A Jenkins, Wei-Hua Jia, Laurence N Kolonel, Charles Kooperberg, Sébastien Küry, Andrea Z Lacroix, Cathy C Laurie, Cecelia A Laurie, Loic Le Marchand, Mathieu Lemire, David Levine, Noralane M Lindor, Yan Liu, Jing Ma, Karen W Makar, Keitaro Matsuo, Polly A Newcomb, John D Potter, Ross L Prentice, Conghui Qu, Thomas Rohan, Stephanie A Rosse, Robert E Schoen, Daniela Seminara, Martha Shrubsole, Xiao-Ou Shu, Martha L Slattery, Darin Taverna, Stephen N Thibodeau, Cornelia M Ulrich, Emily White, Yongbing Xiang, Brent W Zanke, Yi-Xin Zeng, Ben Zhang, Wei Zheng, Li Hsu, Colon Cancer Family Registry and the Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium

Author Affiliations

1: Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA. upeters@fhcrc.org

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