Integrative genomic analysis reveals extended germline homozygosity with lung cancer risk in the PLCO cohort.

Susceptibility to common cancers is multigenic resulting from low-to-high penetrance predisposition-factors and environmental exposure. Genomic studies suggest germline homozygosity as a novel low-penetrance factor contributing to common cancers. We hypothesized that long homozygous regions (tracts-...

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Main Authors: Mohammed S Orloff, Li Zhang, Gurkan Bebek, Charis Eng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3288062?pdf=render