Nature Communications (May 2018)

High-throughput screening of prostate cancer risk loci by single nucleotide polymorphisms sequencing

  • Peng Zhang,
  • Ji-Han Xia,
  • Jing Zhu,
  • Ping Gao,
  • Yi-Jun Tian,
  • Meijun Du,
  • Yong-Chen Guo,
  • Sufyan Suleman,
  • Qin Zhang,
  • Manish Kohli,
  • Lori S. Tillmans,
  • Stephen N. Thibodeau,
  • Amy J. French,
  • James R. Cerhan,
  • Li-Dong Wang,
  • Gong-Hong Wei,
  • Liang Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04451-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Functional characterization of disease-causing variants at risk loci in cancer is challenging. Here, in prostate cancer the authors report a pipeline for high-throughput single-nucleotide polymorphisms sequencing (SNPs-seq) for large scale screening of functional SNPs at disease risk loci.