2015
TERT gene harbors multiple variants associated with pancreatic cancer susceptibility
Campa D, Rizzato C, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Pacetti P, Vodicka P, Cleary SP, Capurso G, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Werner J, Gazouli M, Butterbach K, Ivanauskas A, Giese N, Petersen GM, Fogar P, Wang Z, Bassi C, Ryska M, Theodoropoulos GE, Kooperberg C, Li D, Greenhalf W, Pasquali C, Hackert T, Fuchs CS, Mohelnikova-Duchonova B, Sperti C, Funel N, Dieffenbach AK, Wareham NJ, Buring J, Holcátová I, Costello E, Zambon CF, Kupcinskas J, Risch HA, Kraft P, Bracci PM, Pezzilli R, Olson SH, Sesso HD, Hartge P, Strobel O, Małecka-Panas E, Visvanathan K, Arslan AA, Pedrazzoli S, Souček P, Gioffreda D, Key TJ, Talar-Wojnarowska R, Scarpa A, Mambrini A, Jacobs EJ, Jamroziak K, Klein A, Tavano F, Bambi F, Landi S, Austin MA, Vodickova L, Brenner H, Chanock SJ, Delle Fave G, Piepoli A, Cantore M, Zheng W, Wolpin BM, Amundadottir LT, Canzian F. TERT gene harbors multiple variants associated with pancreatic cancer susceptibility. International Journal Of Cancer 2015, 137: 2175-2183. PMID: 25940397, PMCID: PMC4548797, DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29590.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPancreatic cancer riskCancer riskTelomerase reverse transcriptasePancreatic cancerSingle nucleotide polymorphismsAdditional single nucleotide polymorphismsTelomerase RNA component genePancreatic cancer susceptibilitySignificant associationCommon susceptibility lociCancer susceptibilityStatistical significanceRs401681RiskReverse transcriptaseTERT locusCancerDisease researchMultiple testingNucleotide polymorphismsLinkage disequilibriumIndependent variantsSusceptibility loci
2014
Cross-cancer pleiotropic analysis of endometrial cancer: PAGE and E2C2 consortia
Setiawan VW, Schumacher F, Prescott J, Haessler J, Malinowski J, Wentzensen N, Yang H, Chanock S, Brinton L, Hartge P, Lissowska J, Park SL, Cheng I, Bush WS, Crawford DC, Ursin G, Horn-Ross P, Bernstein L, Lu L, Risch H, Yu H, Sakoda LC, Doherty J, Chen C, Jackson R, Yasmeen S, Cote M, Kocarnik JM, Peters U, Kraft P, De Vivo I, Haiman CA, Kooperberg C, Le Marchand L. Cross-cancer pleiotropic analysis of endometrial cancer: PAGE and E2C2 consortia. Carcinogenesis 2014, 35: 2068-2073. PMID: 24832084, PMCID: PMC4146418, DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgu107.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEndometrial cancer riskEndometrial cancerCancer riskSingle nucleotide polymorphismsEndometrial Cancer ConsortiumEndometrial cancer casesBody mass indexProstate cancer riskMultiple cancer sitesEvidence of heterogeneityMass indexCancer sitesProstate cancerBonferroni-corrected P valueCancer casesCancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphismsCancer ConsortiumGenome-wide association studiesCancerStatistical significanceP-valueEpidemiologyRiskBiological mechanismsEuropean ancestry