Using prior information from the medical literature in GWAS of oral cancer identifies novel susceptibility variant on chromosome 4--the AdAPT method.

Using prior information from the medical literature in GWAS of oral cancer identifies novel susceptibility variant on chromosome 4--the AdAPT method.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) require large sample sizes to obtain adequate statistical power, but it may be possible to increase the power by incorporating complementary data. In this study we investigated the feasibility of automatically retrieving information from the medical literature...

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Main Authors: Mattias Johansson, Angus Roberts, Dan Chen, Yaoyong Li, Manon Delahaye-Sourdeix, Niraj Aswani, Mark A Greenwood, Simone Benhamou, Pagona Lagiou, Ivana Holcátová, Lorenzo Richiardi, Kristina Kjaerheim, Antonio Agudo, Xavier Castellsagué, Tatiana V Macfarlane, Luigi Barzan, Cristina Canova, Nalin S Thakker, David I Conway, Ariana Znaor, Claire M Healy, Wolfgang Ahrens, David Zaridze, Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Jolanta Lissowska, Eleonóra Fabiánová, Ioan Nicolae Mates, Vladimir Bencko, Lenka Foretova, Vladimir Janout, Maria Paula Curado, Sergio Koifman, Ana Menezes, Victor Wünsch-Filho, Jose Eluf-Neto, Paolo Boffetta, Silvia Franceschi, Rolando Herrero, Leticia Fernandez Garrote, Renato Talamini, Stefania Boccia, Pilar Galan, Lars Vatten, Peter Thomson, Diana Zelenika, Mark Lathrop, Graham Byrnes, Hamish Cunningham, Paul Brennan, Jon Wakefield, James D McKay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3360735?pdf=render

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