Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies new endometriosis risk loci

We conducted a genome-wide association (GWA) meta-analysis of 4,604 endometriosis cases and 9,393 controls of Japanese1 and European2 ancestry. We show that rs12700667 on chromosome 7p15.2, previously found in Europeans, replicates in Japanese (P = 3.6 × 10−3), and confirm association of rs7521902 o...

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Main Authors: Nyholt, Dale R., Low, Siew-Kee, Anderson, Carl A., Painter, Jodie N., Uno, Satoko, Morris, Andrew P., MacGregor, Stuart, Gordon, Scott D., Henders, Anjali K., Martin, Nicholas G., Attia, John, Holliday, Elizabeth G., McEvoy, Mark, Scott, Rodney J., Kennedy, Stephen H., Treloar, Susan A., Missmer, Stacey A., Adachi, Sosuke, Tanaka, Kenichi, Nakamura, Yusuke, Zondervan, Krina T., Zembutsu, Hitoshi, Montgomery, Grant W.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527416/