Supported by research grants from the Dutch Cancer Society(KWF,KUN-4335);the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research(NWO,91710358);the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences(KNAW);National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,81272194 and 81072041);a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council(CSC)to Zhang JX
AIM: To investigate whether whole-exome sequencing may serve as an efficient method to identify known or novel colorectal cancer(CRC) predisposing genes in early-onset or familial CRC cases.METHODS: We performed whole...