Wakai K

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
2026
Cancers ·doi:10.3390/cancers18132133

Background/Objectives: Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most prevalent gynecological malignancy in developed countries, yet no clinically validated noninvasive screening biomarker exists. Fatty acid metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of ca…

2020
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-020-58066-8

Uterine leiomyoma is one of the most common gynaecologic benign tumours, but its genetic basis remains largely unknown. Six previous GWAS identified 33 genetic factors in total. Here, we performed a two-staged GWAS using 13,746 cases and 70…

2020
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-020-0640-3

The overwhelming majority of participants in current genetic studies are of European ancestry. To elucidate disease biology in the East Asian population, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) with 212,453 Japanese individuals …