Genome-wide analyses characterize shared heritability among cancers and identify novel cancer susceptibility regions
Lindström S, Wang L, Feng H, Majumdar A, Huo S, Macdonald J, Harrison T, Turman C, Chen H, Mancuso N, Bammler T, Consortium B, Gallinger S, Gruber S, Gunter M, Le Marchand L, Moreno V, Offit K, Study G, De Vivo I, O’Mara T, Spurdle A, Tomlinson I, Consortium E, Fitzgerald R, Gharahkhani P, Gockel I, Jankowski J, Macgregor S, Schumacher J, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Bondy M, Houlston R, Jenkins R, Melin B, Wrensch M, Brennan P, Christiani D, Johansson M, Mckay J, Aldrich M, Amos C, Landi M, Tardon A, Consortium I, Bishop D, Demenais F, Goldstein A, Iles M, Kanetsky P, Law M, Consortium O, Amundadottir L, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Wolpin B, Consortium P, Klein A, Petersen G, Risch H, Consortium T, Chanock S, Purdue M, Scelo G, Pharoah P, Kar S, Hung R, Pasaniuc B, Kraft P. Genome-wide analyses characterize shared heritability among cancers and identify novel cancer susceptibility regions. Journal Of The National Cancer Institute 2023, 115: 712-732. PMID: 36929942, PMCID: PMC10248849, DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djad043.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesTranscriptome-wide association studyCancer susceptibility lociGenome-wide genetic correlationSusceptibility lociAssociation studiesMultiple cancer typesCancer genome-wide association studyGenome-wide analysisCross-disease analysisGenetic correlationsSusceptibility regionsGWAS summary statisticsCancer typesGenetic risk variantsDistinct lociCancer heritabilityLociRisk variantsGenetic contributionEuropean ancestryPleiotropyAdditional regionsDifferent cancersHeritability
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