Identifying novel susceptibility genes for colorectal cancer risk from a transcriptome-wide association study of 125,478 subjects

Susceptibility genes and the underlying mechanisms for the majority of risk loci identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for colorectal cancer (CRC) risk remain largely unknown. We conducted a transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) to identify putative susceptibility genes.

Source: Gastroenterology - October 11, 2020 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Xingyi Guo, Weiqiang Lin, Wanqing Wen, Jeroen Huyghe, Stephanie Bien, Qiuyin Cai, Tabitha Harrison, Zhishan Chen, Conghui Qu, Jiandong Bao, Jirong Long, Yuan Yuan, Fangqin Wang, Mengqiu Bai, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Demetrius Albanes, Sonja I. Berndt, St éph Source Type: research