Meta-analysis of five genome-wide association studies identifies multiple new loci associated with testicular germ cell tumor
Zhaoming Wang, Katherine A McGlynn, Ewa Rajpert-De Meyts, D Timothy Bishop, Charles C Chung, Marlene D Dalgaard, Mark H Greene, Ramneek Gupta, Tom Grotmol, Trine B Haugen, Robert Karlsson, Kevin Litchfield, Nandita Mitra, Kasper Nielsen, Louise C Pyle, Stephen M Schwartz, Vésteinn Thorsson, Saran Vardhanabhuti, Fredrik Wiklund, Clare Turnbull, Stephen J Chanock, Peter A Kanetsky, Katherine L Nathanson
Katherine Nathanson, Peter Kanetsky and colleagues present a meta-analysis of five genome-wide association studies of testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT). They identify eight new susceptibility loci and new independent signals at two previously reported loci, providing further clues to the etiology of TGCT.