Telomere structure and maintenance gene variants and risk of five cancer types
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Childs EJ, Chaffee KG, Gallinger S, Syngal S, Schwartz AG, Cote ML, Bondy ML, Hruban RH, Chanock SJ, Hoover RN, Fuchs CS, Rider DN, Amundadottir LT, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Wolpin BM, Risch HA, Goggins MG, Petersen GM, Klein AP. Association of Common Susceptibility Variants of Pancreatic Cancer in Higher-Risk Patients: A PACGENE Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 2016, 25: 1185-1191. PMID: 27197284, PMCID: PMC5321211, DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-15-1217.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHigh-risk populationPancreatic cancerEarly onset pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer familiesHigh-risk patientsMagnitude of associationHigh-penetrance genesGenetic variantsPancreatic cancer susceptibilityUnselected patientsFamily historyProstate cancerColon cancerCommon genetic variantsCancerCancer familiesLogistic regressionCancer susceptibilityCancer susceptibility lociPatientsCancer lociOvarianCommon variantsBreastRisk