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Evaluation of association of HNF1B variants with diverse cancers: collaborative analysis of data from 19 genome-wide association studies.

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BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have found type 2 diabetes-associated variants in the HNF1B gene to exhibit reciprocal associations with prostate cancer risk. We aimed to identify whether these variants may have an effect on cancer risk in general versus a specific effect on prostate cancer only. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: In a collaborative analysis, we collected data from GWAS of cancer phenotypes for the frequently reported variants of HNF1B, rs4430796 and rs7501939, which...

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University of Oxford
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University of Oxford
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University of Oxford
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MSD
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RDM
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OCDEM
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Zeggini, E
Elliott, K
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WT088885/Z/09/Z
WT075491/Z/04
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Hamdy, F
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Hamdy, F
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PloS one Journal website
Volume:
5
Issue:
5
Article number:
e10858
Publication date:
2010-01-01
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1932-6203
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1932-6203
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English
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uuid:ccff164c-2558-43f7-863e-6244bf94ed08
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60442
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2012-12-19

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