Pancreatic cancer epidemiology: understanding the role of lifestyle and inherited risk factors

AP Klein - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide and its global burden has
more than doubled over the past 25 years. The highest incidence regions for pancreatic …

Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics

J Chiou, RJ Geusz, ML Okino, JY Han, M Miller… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic risk variants that have been identified in genome-wide association studies of
complex diseases are primarily non-coding. Translating these risk variants into mechanistic …

Familial pancreatic cancer

AP Klein - The Pancreas: An Integrated Textbook of Basic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Inherited genetic factors play an important role in the development of pancreatic cancer, with
approximately 2136% of pancreatic cancer being due to genetic variation. Approximately 5 …

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma: trends in epidemiology, risk factors, and outcomes

E Afghani, AP Klein - Hematology/Oncology Clinics, 2022 - hemonc.theclinics.com
There are several types of pancreatic cancer, but the most common type is pancreatic
adenocarcinoma, which comprises 90% of all pancreatic cancer diagnoses. This review …

Association between a polymorphic variant in the CDKN2B‐AS1/ANRIL gene and pancreatic cancer risk

M Giaccherini, R Farinella… - … Journal of Cancer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Genes carrying high‐penetrance germline mutations may also be associated with cancer
susceptibility through common low‐penetrance genetic variants. To increase the knowledge …

Germline genetic variability in pancreatic cancer risk and prognosis

M Gentiluomo, F Canzian, A Nicolini… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer (PC), particularly its most common form, pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC), is relatively rare but highly lethal. Knowledge about PC risk …

The urokinase plasminogen activation system in pancreatic cancer: prospective diagnostic and therapeutic targets

AA Kumar, BJ Buckley, M Ranson - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic cancer is a highly aggressive malignancy that features high recurrence rates and
the poorest prognosis of all solid cancers. The urokinase plasminogen activation system …

Polymorphic variants involved in methylation regulation: a strategy to discover risk loci for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

C Corradi, G Lencioni, M Gentiluomo, A Felici… - Journal of medical …, 2023 - jmg.bmj.com
Introduction Only a small number of risk factors for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
(PDAC) has been established. Several studies identified a role of epigenetics and of …

Genetically predicted gut bacteria, circulating bacteria-associated metabolites and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a Mendelian randomisation study

N Daniel, R Farinella, AC Chatziioannou, M Jenab… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has high mortality and rising incidence rates.
Recent data indicate that the gut microbiome and associated metabolites may play a role in …

Long non-coding RNA TILR constitutively represses TP53 and apoptosis in lung cancer

M Iwai, T Kajino, M Nakatochi, K Yanagisawa… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Non-coding RNAs have an integral regulatory role in numerous functions related to lung
cancer development. Here, we report identification of a novel lncRNA, termed T P53-i …