Mediating effects of smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the relation between the CHRNA5‐A3 genetic locus and lung cancer risk

Recent genome-wide association studies of lung cancer have shown that the CHRNA5-A3 region on chromosome 15q24-25.1 is strongly associated with an increased risk of lung cancer and nicotine dependence, and is thought to be associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well. However, it ha...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jian Wang, Margaret R. Spitz, Christopher I. Amos, Anna V. Wilkinson, Xifeng Wu, Sanjay Shete
Format: Artigo
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.25085
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!