Do variants associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer and type 2 diabetes reciprocally affect risk?

OBJECTIVES:Although type 2 diabetes mellitus is a known risk factor for pancreatic cancer, the existence of shared genetic susceptibility is largely unknown. We evaluated whether any reported genetic risk variants of either disease found by genome-wide association studies reciprocally confer suscept...

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Main Authors: Lang Wu, Kari G Rabe, Gloria M Petersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4319943?pdf=render