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Herbert Yu

University of Hawaii Cancer CenterORCID 0000-0003-3950-4815Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 2 Genetics· 2

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Organism:human· 4 Approach:statistical model· 4 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 3 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 1

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintApr 22, 2026

Novel Genetic Risk Loci for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Identified in a Genome-wide Study of African Ancestry Individuals

Candelaria Vergara, Zhanmo Ni, Jun Zhong…·Alison P. Klein

This study identifies novel genetic risk loci for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in African ancestry individuals through admixture mapping and GWAS.

DOI 10.64898/2026.04.21.26351329

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintMay 18, 2023

A real-world pan-cancer catalogue of mutational signatures from 111,711 tumors

Donghyuk Lee, Min Hua, Difei Wang…·Bin Zhu

This paper introduces SATS, a framework for mutational signature analysis in targeted sequencing data, and presents a pan-cancer catalogue of mutational signatures from 111,711 tumors.

2 citations

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GeneticsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedJun 24, 2020

Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies novel GP2 gene risk variants for pancreatic cancer in the Japanese population

Yingsong Lin, Masahiro Nakatochi, Yasuyuki Hosono…·Keitaro Matsuo

61 citations

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GeneticsbioRxivPreprintJun 16, 2020

Combining genome-wide studies of breast, prostate, ovarian and endometrial cancers maps cross-cancer susceptibility loci and identifies new genetic associations

Siddhartha Kar, Sara Lindström, Rayjean J. Hung…·Rosalind A. Eeles

This study combines genome-wide association data from four cancers to identify shared and novel genetic associations and pleiotropic effects.

6 citations

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