Ionizing radiation biomarkers in epidemiological studies–an update

J Hall, PA Jeggo, C West, M Gomolka… - … Research/Reviews in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent epidemiology studies highlighted the detrimental health effects of exposure to low
dose and low dose rate ionizing radiation (IR): nuclear industry workers studies have shown …

Interactions between dietary acrylamide intake and genes for ovarian cancer risk

JGF Hogervorst, PA van den Brandt… - European journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Some epidemiological studies observed a positive association between dietary acrylamide
intake and ovarian cancer risk but the causality needs to be substantiated. By analyzing …

A systematic SNP selection approach to identify mechanisms underlying disease aetiology: linking height to post-menopausal breast and colorectal cancer risk

RJJ Elands, CCJM Simons, M Riemenschneider… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Data from GWAS suggest that SNPs associated with complex diseases or traits tend to co-
segregate in regions of low recombination, harbouring functionally linked gene clusters. This …

Energy restriction at young age, genetic variants in the insulin‐like growth factor pathway and colorectal cancer risk in the Netherlands Cohort Study

CCJM Simons, LJ Schouten… - … Journal of Cancer, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The energy restriction (ER)‐colorectal cancer (CRC) association is inconsistent in literature.
To strengthen the biological plausibility of the ER‐CRC association, we investigated …

Comparison of different proteases and direct cell lysis methods used for the recovery of exogenous DNA from fingernail evidence

CR Izzo - 2017 - search.proquest.com
Fingernail samples are analyzed in forensic casework to determine the source of the nail
and/or to recover a foreign profile from beneath the nail. When extracting from a fingernail …