A genome wide association study on Newfoundland colorectal cancer patients’ survival outcomes

• Published in: Biomarker Research
• Main Authors: Xu, Wei, Xu, Jingxiong, Shestopaloff, Konstantin, Dicks, Elizabeth, Green, Jane, Parfrey, Patrick, Green, Roger, Savas, Sevtap
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Omni; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/86873; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40364-015-0031-6

Abstract Background In this study we performed genome-wide association studies to identify candidate SNPs that may predict the risk of disease outcome in colorectal cancer. Methods Patient cohort consisted of 505 unrelated patients with Caucasian ancestry. Germline DNA samples were genotyped using t...