Low-frequency variation near common germline susceptibility loci are associated with risk of Ewing sarcoma.

Low-frequency variation near common germline susceptibility loci are associated with risk of Ewing sarcoma.

<h4>Background</h4>Ewing sarcoma (EwS) is a rare, aggressive solid tumor of childhood, adolescence and young adulthood associated with pathognomonic EWSR1-ETS fusion oncoproteins altering transcriptional regulation. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 6 common germline...

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Main Authors: Shu-Hong Lin, Joshua N Sampson, Thomas G P Grünewald, Didier Surdez, Stephanie Reynaud, Olivier Mirabeau, Eric Karlins, Rebeca Alba Rubio, Sakina Zaidi, Sandrine Grossetête-Lalami, Stelly Ballet, Eve Lapouble, Valérie Laurence, Jean Michon, Gaelle Pierron, Heinrich Kovar, Udo Kontny, Anna González-Neira, Javier Alonso, Ana Patino-Garcia, Nadège Corradini, Perrine Marec Bérard, Jeremy Miller, Neal D Freedman, Nathaniel Rothman, Brian D Carter, Casey L Dagnall, Laurie Burdett, Kristine Jones, Michelle Manning, Kathleen Wyatt, Weiyin Zhou, Meredith Yeager, David G Cox, Robert N Hoover, Javed Khan, Gregory T Armstrong, Wendy M Leisenring, Smita Bhatia, Leslie L Robison, Andreas E Kulozik, Jennifer Kriebel, Thomas Meitinger, Markus Metzler, Manuela Krumbholz, Wolfgang Hartmann, Konstantin Strauch, Thomas Kirchner, Uta Dirksen, Lisa Mirabello, Margaret A Tucker, Franck Tirode, Lindsay M Morton, Stephen J Chanock, Olivier Delattre, Mitchell J Machiela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237792

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