Gallbladder cancer: epidemiology and genetic risk associations

MA Schmidt, L Marcano-Bonilla… - Chinese clinical …, 2019 - cco.amegroups.org
Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a form of hepatobiliary malignancy that develops from the
mucosal lining of the gallbladder. The early development of gallbladder cancer is usually …

Identifying breast cancer susceptibility genes–a review of the genetic background in familial breast cancer

C Wendt, S Margolin - Acta Oncologica, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Heritage is the most important risk factor for breast cancer. About 15–20% of
breast cancer is familial, referring to affected women who have one or more first-or second …

The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019

A Buniello, JAL MacArthur, M Cerezo… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The GWAS Catalog delivers a high-quality curated collection of all published genome-wide
association studies enabling investigations to identify causal variants, understand disease …

Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer and breast cancer subtypes

N Mavaddat, K Michailidou, J Dennis, M Lush… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Stratification of women according to their risk of breast cancer based on polygenic risk
scores (PRSs) could improve screening and prevention strategies. Our aim was to develop …

Polygenic prediction via Bayesian regression and continuous shrinkage priors

T Ge, CY Chen, Y Ni, YCA Feng, JW Smoller - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have shown promise in predicting human complex traits and
diseases. Here, we present PRS-CS, a polygenic prediction method that infers posterior …

Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

JR Huyghe, SA Bien, TA Harrison, HM Kang, S Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To further dissect the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer (CRC), we performed whole-
genome sequencing of 1,439 cases and 720 controls, imputed discovered sequence …

Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood

DJ Thompson, G Genovese, J Halvardson, JC Ulirsch… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in circulating white blood cells is the most common
form of clonal mosaicism,,,–, yet our knowledge of the causes and consequences of this is …

Genomic and transcriptomic association studies identify 16 novel susceptibility loci for venous thromboembolism

S Lindström, LU Wang, EN Smith… - Blood, The Journal …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality. To
advance our understanding of the biology contributing to VTE, we conducted a genome …

dbPTM in 2019: exploring disease association and cross-talk of post-translational modifications

KY Huang, TY Lee, HJ Kao, CT Ma, CC Lee… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The dbPTM (http://dbPTM. mbc. nctu. edu. tw/) has been maintained for over 10
years with the aim to provide functional and structural analyses for post-translational …

Mendelian randomization analysis using mixture models for robust and efficient estimation of causal effects

G Qi, N Chatterjee - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Mendelian randomization (MR) has emerged as a major tool for the investigation of causal
relationship among traits, utilizing results from large-scale genome-wide association studies …