A genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for non-cardia gastric cancer at 3q13.31 and 5p13.1 (original) (raw)

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We thank all the study participants, research staff and students who took part in this work. Funding was provided by grants from the China National High-Tech Research and Development Program (2009AA022705, 2009AA022704 and 2009AA022701), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30700684, 81130022, 30671814, 81001276, 81072380 and 31000553), the Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation (BK2008221), the Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation (201081 and 201026), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-09-0550 and NCET-10-0178) and the Priority Academic Program for the Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (Public Health and Preventive Medicine).

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1. Bio-X Institutes, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
   Yongyong Shi & Zhiqiang Li
2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Modern Toxicology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
   Zhibin Hu, Juncheng Dai, Huizhang Li, Jing Dong, Feng Lu, Hanze Zhang, Lingmin Hu, Yue Jiang, Minjie Chu, Hongxia Ma, Jiaping Chen, Guangfu Jin & Hongbing Shen
3. Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
   Zhibin Hu, Jiaping Chen, Guangfu Jin & Hongbing Shen
4. State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
   Zhibin Hu & Hongbing Shen
5. Department of Etiology and Carcinogenesis, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
   Chen Wu, Wen Tan & Dongxin Lin
6. Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
   Meilin Wang & Zhengdong Zhang
7. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
   Xiaoping Miao & Tangchun Wu
8. Cyrus Tang Hematology Center, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
   Yifeng Zhou

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H.S. took full responsibility for the study, including study design, obtaining financial support, data interpretation and manuscript submission. D.L. and Y.S. co-directed the study, obtained financial support and were responsible for study design, the interpretation of results and writing the manuscript. Z.H. contributed financial support, performed overall project management, performed statistical analyses along with J. Dai and drafted the initial manuscript. H. Li, F.L., H.Z., L.H., Y.J., Z.L. and M.C. were responsible for sample processing and managed the genotyping data. M.W., Y.Z., H. Li, J. Dong, H. Ma, G.J., J.C. and Z.Z. were responsible for subject recruitment and sample preparation for the Jiangsu samples. C.W., X.M. and W.T. were responsible for subject recruitment and sample preparation for the Beijing samples and reviewed the manuscript. T.W. participated in the study design and reviewed the manuscript. All authors approved the final manuscript.

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Shi, Y., Hu, Z., Wu, C. et al. A genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for non-cardia gastric cancer at 3q13.31 and 5p13.1.Nat Genet 43, 1215–1218 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.978

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• Received: 07 June 2011
• Accepted: 21 September 2011
• Published: 30 October 2011
• Issue Date: December 2011
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.978