Pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci and their role in survival.

Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst mortality rates of all cancers. Little is known about its etiology, particularly regarding inherited risk. The PanScan project, a genome-wide association study, identified several common polymorphisms affecting pancreatic cancer susceptibility. Single nucleotid...

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Main Authors: Cosmeri Rizzato, Daniele Campa, Nathalia Giese, Jens Werner, P Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda, Rajiv Kumar, Michaela Schanné, William Greenhalf, Eithne Costello, Kay-Tee Khaw, Tim J Key, Afshan Siddiq, Justo Lorenzo-Bermejo, Barbara Burwinkel, John P Neoptolemos, Markus W Büchler, Jörg D Hoheisel, Andrea Bauer, Federico Canzian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3220706?pdf=render