exome arrays

Exome sequences from thousands of Chinese individuals with or without esophageal squamous cell carcinoma led to six new germline risk variants.

The researchers found that most advanced EGFR-mutant lung cancer patients harbored changes in an average of two to three other oncogenes.

A pair of studies has uncovered additional loci and ancestry-specific variants that are associated with plasma lipid levels and coronary artery disease risk.

An exome-wide association study involving almost 2,800 individuals with dilated cardiomyopathy led to six new and two known susceptibility loci.

A meta-analysis of hundreds of thousands of individuals led to several dozen rare or low-frequency variants with relatively pronounced effects on height.

An exome-wide association study drew attention to a rare variant in TM2D3 that is more common among people of Icelandic heritage.

A rare autosomal variant and common X-linked variant study produced new associations between first-menstruation timing and rare autosomal variants.

A missense change in CDKN2A turned up through a genome-wide association study involving thousands of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia cases and controls.

Researchers identified low-frequency lung cancer risk variants through a three-stage association involving nearly 13,000 Chinese individuals.