Low frequency variants associated with leukocyte telomere length in the Singapore Chinese population

Autor: Xuling Chang, Resham L. Gurung, Ling Wang, Aizhen Jin, Zheng Li, Renwei Wang, Kenneth B. Beckman, Jennifer Adams-Haduch, Wee Yang Meah, Kar Seng Sim, Weng Khong Lim, Sonia Davila, Patrick Tan, Jing Xian Teo, Khung Keong Yeo, Yiamunaa M., Sylvia Liu, Su Chi Lim, Jianjun Liu, Rob M. van Dam, Yechiel Friedlander, Woon-Puay Koh, Jian-Min Yuan, Chiea Chuen Khor, Chew-Kiat Heng, Rajkumar Dorajoo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Communications Biology, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3642
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02056-7
Popis: Xuling Chang et al. study whether low frequency variants are associated with leukocyte telomere length and whether these variants predispose to incident cancers and mortalities among East Asians. They find that three East Asian specific variants at POT1, TERF1 and STN1 loci are associated with leukocyte telomere length and report a mechanistic pathway linking TERF1, leukocyte telomere length and incident colon cancer.
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