[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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] PLEKHM1 regulates autophagosome-lysosome fusion through HOPS complex and LC3/GABARAP proteins

DG McEwan, D Popovic, A Gubas, S Terawaki… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
The lysosome is the final destination for degradation of endocytic cargo, plasma membrane
constituents, and intracellular components sequestered by macroautophagy. Fusion of …

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 …

Identification of six new susceptibility loci for invasive epithelial ovarian cancer

KB Kuchenbaecker, SJ Ramus, J Tyrer, A Lee… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 12 epithelial ovarian cancer
(EOC) susceptibility alleles. The pattern of association at these loci is consistent in BRCA1 …

TWAS Atlas: a curated knowledgebase of transcriptome-wide association studies

M Lu, Y Zhang, F Yang, J Mai, Q Gao, X Xu… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs), as a practical and prevalent approach for
detecting the associations between genetically regulated genes and traits, are now leading …

A transcriptome-wide association study of high-grade serous epithelial ovarian cancer identifies new susceptibility genes and splice variants

A Gusev, K Lawrenson, X Lin, PC Lyra Jr, S Kar… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We sought to identify susceptibility genes for high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) by
performing a transcriptome-wide association study of gene expression and splice junction …

[HTML][HTML] Ovarian cancer screening—current status, future directions

U Menon, M Griffin, A Gentry-Maharaj - Gynecologic oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
Evidence of a mortality benefit continues to elude ovarian cancer (OC) screening. Data from
the US Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial which used a …