2016
A splicing variant of TERT identified by GWAS interacts with menopausal estrogen therapy in risk of ovarian cancer
Lee A, Bomkamp A, Bandera E, Jensen A, Ramus S, Goodman M, Rossing M, Modugno F, Moysich K, Chang‐Claude J, Rudolph A, Gentry‐Maharaj A, Terry K, Gayther S, Cramer D, Doherty J, Schildkraut J, Kjaer S, Ness R, Menon U, Berchuck A, Mukherjee B, Roman L, Pharoah P, Chenevix‐Trench G, Olson S, Hogdall E, Wu A, Pike M, Stram D, Pearce C, Consortium F. A splicing variant of TERT identified by GWAS interacts with menopausal estrogen therapy in risk of ovarian cancer. International Journal Of Cancer 2016, 139: 2646-2654. PMID: 27420401, PMCID: PMC5500237, DOI: 10.1002/ijc.30274.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAge FactorsAgedAged, 80 and overAllelesAlternative SplicingCase-Control StudiesDisease SusceptibilityEstrogen Replacement TherapyFemaleGene-Environment InteractionGenome-Wide Association StudyGenotypeHumansMenopauseMiddle AgedOdds RatioOvarian NeoplasmsPolymorphism, Single NucleotidePopulation SurveillanceRiskTelomeraseConceptsOvarian Cancer Association ConsortiumEstrogen-alone therapyOvarian cancer riskEndometrioid ovarian cancerOvarian cancerET usersET useT alleleAssociated with ovarian cancer riskCancer riskLong-term ET usersOvarian cancer susceptibility lociRisk of ovarian cancerSusceptibility variantsMenopausal estrogen therapyCancer susceptibility lociSerous ovarian cancerSplice variantsNon-usersCase-control studyConditional logistic regressionGenome-wide association studiesIncreased risk of diseaseEndometrioid histotypeEstrogen therapy
2012
Efficient designs of gene–environment interaction studies: implications of Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium and gene–environment independence
Chen J, Kang G, VanderWeele T, Zhang C, Mukherjee B. Efficient designs of gene–environment interaction studies: implications of Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium and gene–environment independence. Statistics In Medicine 2012, 31: 2516-2530. PMID: 22362617, PMCID: PMC3448495, DOI: 10.1002/sim.4460.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPresence of G-E interactionsG-E interactionsSubsample of casesGene-environmentHardy-Weinberg equilibriumG-E independenceGene-environment interaction studiesGene-environment independenceRandom subsampleGenetic susceptibility variantsCase-control sampleEnvironmental risk factorsSusceptibility variantsExternal control dataRisk factorsGenetic effectsWald statisticInteraction studiesSubsampleVariable EControl dataEnvironmental effectsIndependenceDataWald