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Wei-Wei Chen
Researcher at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Publications - 2
Citations - 617
Wei-Wei Chen is an academic researcher from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Single-nucleotide polymorphism & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 553 citations.
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Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the MHC class I, IL10, and IL23R-IL12RB2 regions associated with Behcet's disease
Elaine F. Remmers,Fulya Cosan,Yohei Kirino,Michael J. Ombrello,Neslihan Abaci,Colleen Satorius,Julie M. Le,Barbara Yang,Benjamin D. Korman,Aris Cakiris,Oznur Aglar,Zeliha Emrence,Hulya Azakli,Duran Ustek,Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun,Gulsen Akman-Demir,Wei-Wei Chen,Christopher I. Amos,Michael B. Dizon,Afet Akdag Kose,Gülsevim Azizlerli,Burak Erer,Oliver J. Brand,Virginia G. Kaklamani,Phaedon G. Kaklamanis,Eldad Ben-Chetrit,Miles Stanford,Farida Fortune,Marwen Ghabra,William E R Ollier,Young-Hun Cho,Dongsik Bang,John M O'Shea,Graham R. Wallace,Massimo Gadina,Daniel L. Kastner,Ahmet Gül +36 more
TL;DR: The known association of Behçet's disease with HLA-B*51 was confirmed and a second, independent association within the MHC Class I region was identified and the disease-associated IL10 variant was associated with diminished mRNA expression and low protein production.
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Effects of MDM2, MDM4 and TP53 Codon 72 Polymorphisms on Cancer Risk in a Cohort Study of Carriers of TP53 Germline Mutations
Shenying Fang,Ralf Krahe,Guillermina Lozano,Younghun Han,Wei-Wei Chen,Sean M. Post,Baili Zhang,Charmaine D. Wilson,Linda L. Bachinski,Louise C. Strong,Christopher I. Amos +10 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the MDM2 SNP309 G allele is associated with cancer risk in p53 germline mutation carriers and accelerates time to cancer onset with a pronounced effect in females.