[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 …

The OncoArray Consortium: a network for understanding the genetic architecture of common cancers

CI Amos, J Dennis, Z Wang, J Byun… - … , biomarkers & prevention, 2017 - AACR
Background: Common cancers develop through a multistep process often including
inherited susceptibility. Collaboration among multiple institutions, and funding from multiple …

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 …

Epigenetic therapy for ovarian cancer: promise and progress

S Moufarrij, M Dandapani, E Arthofer, S Gomez… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic malignancy, with a 5-year survival rate of
approximately 47%, a number that has remained constant over the past two decades. Early …

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 …

GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer

PDP Pharoah, YY Tsai, SJ Ramus, CM Phelan… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified four susceptibility loci for
epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), with another two suggestive loci reaching near genome …

Statistical methods for studying disease subtype heterogeneity

M Wang, D Spiegelman, A Kuchiba… - Statistics in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A fundamental goal of epidemiologic research is to investigate the relationship between
exposures and disease risk. Cases of the disease are often considered a single outcome …

Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative–specific breast cancer risk loci

M Garcia-Closas, FJ Couch, S Lindstrom… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Estrogen receptor (ER)-negative tumors represent 20–30% of all breast cancers, with a
higher proportion occurring in younger women and women of African ancestry. The etiology …

ARPKD and early manifestations of ADPKD: the original polycystic kidney disease and phenocopies

C Bergmann - Pediatric Nephrology, 2015 - Springer
Renal cysts are clinically and genetically heterogeneous conditions. Polycystic kidney
disease (PKD) is common and its characterization has paved the way for the identification of …