Rare deleterious germline variants and risk of lung cancer

Abstract Recent studies suggest that rare variants exhibit stronger effect sizes and might play a crucial role in the etiology of lung cancers (LC). Whole exome plus targeted sequencing of germline DNA was performed on 1045 LC cases and 885 controls in the discovery set. To unveil the inherited caus...

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Published in:npj Precision Oncology
Main Authors: Yanhong Liu, Jun Xia, James McKay, Spiridon Tsavachidis, Xiangjun Xiao, Margaret R. Spitz, Chao Cheng, Jinyoung Byun, Wei Hong, Yafang Li, Dakai Zhu, Zhuoyi Song, Susan M. Rosenberg, Michael E. Scheurer, Farrah Kheradmand, Claudio W. Pikielny, Christine M. Lusk, Ann G. Schwartz, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Michael H. Cho, Edwin K. Silverman, Joan Bailey-Wilson, Susan M. Pinney, Marshall Anderson, Elena Kupert, Colette Gaba, Diptasri Mandal, Ming You, Mariza de Andrade, Ping Yang, Triantafillos Liloglou, Michael P. A. Davies, Jolanta Lissowska, Beata Swiatkowska, David Zaridze, Anush Mukeria, Vladimir Janout, Ivana Holcatova, Dana Mates, Jelena Stojsic, Ghislaine Scelo, Paul Brennan, Geoffrey Liu, John K. Field, Rayjean J. Hung, David C. Christiani, Christopher I. Amos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41698-021-00146-7

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