MiRNA-Related SNPs and Risk of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma and Barrett's Esophagus: Post Genome-Wide Association Analysis in the BEACON Consortium.

Incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) has increased substantially in recent decades. Multiple risk factors have been identified for EA and its precursor, Barrett's esophagus (BE), such as reflux, European ancestry, male sex, obesity, and tobacco smoking, and several germline genetic varia...

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Main Authors: Matthew F Buas, Lynn Onstad, David M Levine, Harvey A Risch, Wong-Ho Chow, Geoffrey Liu, Rebecca C Fitzgerald, Leslie Bernstein, Weimin Ye, Nigel C Bird, Yvonne Romero, Alan G Casson, Douglas A Corley, Nicholas J Shaheen, Anna H Wu, Marilie D Gammon, Brian J Reid, Laura J Hardie, Ulrike Peters, David C Whiteman, Thomas L Vaughan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128617
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