[HTML][HTML] Polygenic scores in cancer

X Yang, S Kar, AC Antoniou, PDP Pharoah - Nature reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Since the publication of the first genome-wide association study for cancer in 2007,
thousands of common alleles that are associated with the risk of cancer have been …

Epidemiology and Etiology of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)

SS Wang - Seminars in Hematology, 2023 - Elsevier
As the most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtype, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
(DLBCL) incidence patterns generally parallel that for NHL overall. Globally, DLBCL …

Genome-wide association study of bladder cancer reveals new biological and translational insights

S Koutros, LA Kiemeney, PP Choudhury, RL Milne… - European urology, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Genomic regions identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for
bladder cancer risk provide new insights into etiology. Objective To identify new …

Dual inhibition of EGFR‑VEGF: An effective approach to the treatment of advanced non‑small cell lung cancer with EGFR mutation

Q Wang, A Zeng, M Zhu, L Song - … journal of oncology, 2023 - spandidos-publications.com
On a global scale, the incidence and mortality rates of lung cancer are gradually increasing
year by year. A number of bad habits and environmental factors are associated with lung …

Pan-cancer and cross-population genome-wide association studies dissect shared genetic backgrounds underlying carcinogenesis

G Sato, Y Shirai, S Namba, R Edahiro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Integrating genomic data of multiple cancers allows de novo cancer grouping and
elucidating the shared genetic basis across cancers. Here, we conduct the pan-cancer and …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study of esophageal squamous cell cancer identifies shared and distinct risk variants in African and Chinese populations

WC Chen, JT Brandenburg, A Choudhury… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has a high disease burden in sub-Saharan
Africa and has a very poor prognosis. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of ESCC …

Evaluating approaches for constructing polygenic risk scores for prostate cancer in men of African and European ancestry

BF Darst, J Shen, RK Madduri, AA Rodriguez… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Genome-wide polygenic risk scores (GW-PRSs) have been reported to have better
predictive ability than PRSs based on genome-wide significance thresholds across …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia in Sardinia, Italy (1974–2003)

G Broccia, J Carter, C Ozsin-Ozler, S De Matteis… - Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Several reports have described a worldwide increasing incidence of chronic lymphocytic
leukemia (CLL) dating back seven-eight decades. While genetic susceptibility would be an …

A pleiotropic variant in DNAJB4 is associated with multiple myeloma risk

M Dicanio, M Giaccherini… - … journal of cancer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pleiotropy, which consists of a single gene or allelic variant affecting multiple unrelated
traits, is common across cancers, with evidence for genome‐wide significant loci shared …

Predicting cancer risk from germline whole-exome sequencing data using a novel context-based variant aggregation approach

Z Guan, CB Begg, R Shen - Cancer Research Communications, 2023 - AACR
Many studies have shown that the distributions of the genomic, nucleotide, and epigenetic
contexts of somatic variants in tumors are informative of cancer etiology. Recently, a new …