Non-small cell lung cancer: epidemiology, risk factors, treatment, and survivorship

JR Molina, P Yang, SD Cassivi, SE Schild… - Mayo clinic …, 2008 - Elsevier
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality not only in the United States but
also around the world. In North America, lung cancer has become more predominant among …

Inherited susceptibility to common cancers

WD Foulkes - New England Journal of Medicine, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
This review deals with germ-line genes that increase susceptibility to five major types of
cancer: breast, lung, pancreatic, prostate, and colorectal cancer. Often familial, often …

Somatic mutations affect key pathways in lung adenocarcinoma

L Ding, G Getz, DA Wheeler, ER Mardis, MD McLellan… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Determining the genetic basis of cancer requires comprehensive analyses of large
collections of histopathologically well-classified primary tumours. Here we report the results …

Variants in nicotinic receptors and risk for nicotine dependence

LJ Bierut, JA Stitzel, JC Wang… - American Journal of …, 2008 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: A recent study provisionally identified numerous genetic variants as risk factors for
the transition from smoking to the development of nicotine dependence, including an amino …

Detection of sharing by descent, long-range phasing and haplotype imputation

A Kong, G Masson, ML Frigge, A Gylfason… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Uncertainty about the phase of strings of SNPs creates complications in genetic analysis,
although methods have been developed for phasing population-based samples. However …

Common 5p15. 33 and 6p21. 33 variants influence lung cancer risk

Y Wang, P Broderick, E Webb, X Wu, J Vijayakrishnan… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
We conducted a genome-wide association (GWA) study of lung cancer comparing 511,919
SNP genotypes in 1,952 cases and 1,438 controls. The most significant association was …

Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15. 33

JD McKay, RJ Hung, V Gaborieau, P Boffetta… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
We carried out a genome-wide association study of lung cancer (3,259 cases and 4,159
controls), followed by replication in 2,899 cases and 5,573 controls. Two uncorrelated …

Sequence variant on 8q24 confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer

LA Kiemeney, S Thorlacius, P Sulem, F Geller… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
We conducted a genome-wide SNP association study on 1,803 urinary bladder cancer
(UBC) cases and 34,336 controls from Iceland and The Netherlands and follow up studies in …

A Candidate Gene Approach Identifies the CHRNA5-A3-B4 Region as a Risk Factor for Age-Dependent Nicotine Addiction

RB Weiss, TB Baker, DS Cannon… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
People who begin daily smoking at an early age are at greater risk of long-term nicotine
addiction. We tested the hypothesis that associations between nicotinic acetylcholine …

Genome-wide association studies in cancer

DF Easton, RA Eeles - Human molecular genetics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide a powerful approach to identify common,
low-penetrance disease loci without prior knowledge of location or function. GWAS have …