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SUBMITTER: Amundadottir L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2839871 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature genetics 20090802 9
We conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study of pancreatic cancer, a cancer with one of the lowest survival rates worldwide. We genotyped 558,542 SNPs in 1,896 individuals with pancreatic cancer and 1,939 controls drawn from 12 prospective cohorts plus one hospital-based case-control study. We conducted a combined analysis of these groups plus an additional 2,457 affected individuals and 2,654 controls from eight case-control studies, adjusting for study, sex, ancestry and five princip ...[more]