[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a review

BM Reid, JB Permuth, TA Sellers - Cancer biology & medicine, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ovarian cancer (OC) is the seventh most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the
world and the tenth most common in China. Epithelial OC is the most predominant …

Genome-wide association studies of cancer: current insights and future perspectives

A Sud, B Kinnersley, RS Houlston - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide an agnostic approach for investigating
the genetic basis of complex diseases. In oncology, GWAS of nearly all common …

DNA methylation age of human tissues and cell types

S Horvath - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Background It is not yet known whether DNA methylation levels can be used to accurately
predict age across a broad spectrum of human tissues and cell types, nor whether the …

Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer

CM Phelan, KB Kuchenbaecker, JP Tyrer, SP Kar… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
To identify common alleles associated with different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer
(EOC), we pooled data from multiple genome-wide genotyping projects totaling 25,509 EOC …

Germline Mutations in the BRIP1, BARD1, PALB2, and NBN Genes in Women With Ovarian Cancer

SJ Ramus, H Song, E Dicks, JP Tyrer… - Journal of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background: Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal gynecological malignancy,
responsible for 13 000 deaths per year in the United States. Risk prediction based on …

Ovarian cancer prevention and screening

U Menon, C Karpinskyj… - Obstetrics & …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Financial Disclosure Prof. Menon has stock ownership and has received research funding
from Abcodia Ltd, a UCL spinout company with an interest in biomarkers and commercial …

Rethinking ovarian cancer: recommendations for improving outcomes

S Vaughan, JI Coward, RC Bast Jr, A Berchuck… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
There have been major advances in our understanding of the cellular and molecular biology
of the human malignancies that are collectively referred to as ovarian cancer. At a recent …

Contribution of Germline Mutations in the RAD51B, RAD51C, and RAD51D Genes to Ovarian Cancer in the Population

H Song, E Dicks, SJ Ramus, JP Tyrer… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Purpose The aim of this study was to estimate the contribution of deleterious mutations in the
RAD51B, RAD51C, and RAD51D genes to invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) in the …

Aging effects on DNA methylation modules in human brain and blood tissue

S Horvath, Y Zhang, P Langfelder, RS Kahn… - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Several recent studies reported aging effects on DNA methylation levels of
individual CpG dinucleotides. But it is not yet known whether aging-related consensus …

Association between BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and survival in women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer

KL Bolton, G Chenevix-Trench, C Goh, S Sadetzki… - Jama, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Context Approximately 10% of women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) carry
deleterious germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2. A recent article suggested that BRCA2 …