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A genome-wide association study of marginal zone lymphoma shows association to the HLA region
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A genome-wide association study of marginal zone lymphoma shows association to the HLA region

Joseph Vijai, Brian K Link, Zhaoming Wang, George J Weiner, Sonja I Berndt, Yuanqing Ye, James R Cerhan, Christine F Skibola, Susan L Slager, Silvia de Sanjose, …
Nature communications, Vol.6(1), pp.5751-5751
01/08/2015
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6751
PMCID: PMC4287989
PMID: 25569183
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https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6751View
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Abstract

Marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) is the third most common subtype of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Here we perform a two-stage GWAS of 1,281 MZL cases and 7,127 controls of European ancestry and identify two independent loci near BTNL2 (rs9461741, P=3.95 × 10(-15)) and HLA-B (rs2922994, P=2.43 × 10(-9)) in the HLA region significantly associated with MZL risk. This is the first evidence that genetic variation in the major histocompatibility complex influences MZL susceptibility.
Computational Biology European Continental Ancestry Group - genetics Genome-Wide Association Study Major Histocompatibility Complex - genetics Humans Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide - genetics Butyrophilins Genotype Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone - genetics Membrane Glycoproteins - genetics

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