European position statement on lung cancer screening

M Oudkerk, A Devaraj, R Vliegenthart… - The Lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT can save lives. This European Union (EU) position
statement presents the available evidence and the major issues that need to be addressed …

[HTML][HTML] Familial risk for lung cancer

M Kanwal, XJ Ding, Y Cao - Oncology letters, 2017 - … .spandidos-publications.com
Lung cancer, which has a low survival rate, is a leading cause of cancer-associated mortality
worldwide. Smoking and air pollution are the major causes of lung cancer; however …

Case–control association mapping by proxy using family history of disease

JZ Liu, Y Erlich, JK Pickrell - Nature genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Collecting cases for case–control genetic association studies can be time-consuming and
expensive. In some situations (such as studies of late-onset or rapidly lethal diseases), it …

Genetic predisposition to lung cancer: comprehensive literature integration, meta-analysis, and multiple evidence assessment of candidate-gene association studies

J Wang, Q Liu, S Yuan, W Xie, Y Liu, Y Xiang, N Wu… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
More than 1000 candidate-gene association studies on genetic susceptibility to lung cancer
have been published over the last two decades but with few consensuses for the likely …

Lung cancer risk prediction model incorporating lung function: development and validation in the UK Biobank prospective cohort study

DC Muller, M Johansson, P Brennan - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Several lung cancer risk prediction models have been developed, but none to date
have assessed the predictive ability of lung function in a population-based cohort. We …

Comparative transcriptome profiling reveals coding and noncoding RNA differences in NSCLC from African Americans and European Americans

KA Mitchell, A Zingone, L Toulabi, J Boeckelman… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: To determine whether racial differences in gene and miRNA expression translates
to differences in lung tumor biology with clinical relevance in African Americans (AAs) and …

Establishment of a strong link between smoking and cancer pathogenesis through DNA methylation analysis

Y Ma, MD Li - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Smoking is a well-documented risk factor in various cancers, especially lung cancer. In the
current study, we tested the hypothesis that abnormal DNAm loci associated with smoking …

Association between GWAS-identified lung adenocarcinoma susceptibility loci and EGFR mutations in never-smoking Asian women, and comparison with findings …

WJ Seow, K Matsuo, CA Hsiung… - Human molecular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
To evaluate associations by EGFR mutation status for lung adenocarcinoma risk among
never-smoking Asian women, we conducted a meta-analysis of 11 loci previously identified …

When will Mendelian randomization become relevant for clinical practice and public health?

GD Smith, L Paternoster, C Relton - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Obtaining reliable evidence regarding factors that cause disease or influence disease
progression is clearly central to progress in science. There have been many high-profile …

Quantifying the genetic correlation between multiple cancer types

S Lindström, H Finucane, B Bulik-Sullivan… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2017 - AACR
Background: Many cancers share specific genetic risk factors, including both rare high-
penetrance mutations and common SNPs identified through genome-wide association …