Browsing ICR Divisions by author "Litchfield, Kevin"
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Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
Telomeres Mendelian Randomization Collaboration,; Haycock, PC; Burgess, S; Nounu, A; Zheng, J; et al. (AMER MEDICAL ASSOC, 2017-05-01)IMPORTANCE: The causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility of observational studies to confounding ... -
Deterministic Evolutionary Trajectories Influence Primary Tumor Growth: TRACERx Renal.
Turajlic, S; Xu, H; Litchfield, K; Rowan, A; Horswell, S; et al. (CELL PRESS, 2018-04-19)The evolutionary features of clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) have not been systematically studied to date. We analyzed 1,206 primary tumor regions from 101 patients recruited into the multi-center prospective study, ... -
Genomic evolution and chemoresistance in germ-cell tumours.
Taylor-Weiner, A; Zack, T; O'Donnell, E; Guerriero, JL; Bernard, B; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2016-11-30)Germ-cell tumours (GCTs) are derived from germ cells and occur most frequently in the testes. GCTs are histologically heterogeneous and distinctly curable with chemotherapy. Gains of chromosome arm 12p and aneuploidy are ... -
Genomic landscape of platinum resistant and sensitive testicular cancers.
Loveday, C; Litchfield, K; Proszek, PZ; Cornish, AJ; Santo, F; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2020-05-04)While most testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) exhibit exquisite sensitivity to platinum chemotherapy, ~10% are platinum resistant. To gain insight into the underlying mechanisms, we undertake whole exome sequencing and ... -
Germ line mutations in shelterin complex genes are associated with familial chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Speedy, HE; Kinnersley, B; Chubb, D; Broderick, P; Law, PJ; et al. (AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY, 2016-11-10)Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can be familial; however, thus far no rare germ line disruptive alleles for CLL have been identified. We performed whole-exome sequencing of 66 CLL families, identifying 4 families where ... -
Identification of 19 new risk loci and potential regulatory mechanisms influencing susceptibility to testicular germ cell tumor.
Litchfield, K; Levy, M; Orlando, G; Loveday, C; Law, PJ; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2017-07-01)Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have transformed understanding of susceptibility to testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs), but much of the heritability remains unexplained. Here we report a new GWAS, a meta-analysis ... -
Large-scale Analysis Demonstrates Familial Testicular Cancer to have Polygenic Aetiology.
Loveday, C; Law, P; Litchfield, K; Levy, M; Holroyd, A; et al. (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2018-09-01)UNLABELLED: Testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT) is the most common cancer in young men. Multiplex TGCT families have been well reported and analyses of population cancer registries have demonstrated a four- to eightfold ... -
Large-scale Sequencing of Testicular Germ Cell Tumour (TGCT) Cases Excludes Major TGCT Predisposition Gene.
Litchfield, K; Loveday, C; Levy, M; Dudakia, D; Rapley, E; et al. (2018-06)Testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT), the most common cancer in young men, has a significant heritable basis that has long raised questions as to the existence of underlying major high-penetrance susceptibility gene(s). To ... -
Mendelian randomisation analysis provides no evidence for a relationship between adult height and testicular cancer risk.
Levy, M; Hall, D; Sud, A; Law, P; Litchfield, K; et al. (WILEY, 2017-09-01)Observational studies have suggested anthropometric traits, particularly increased height are associated with an elevated risk of testicular cancer (testicular germ cell tumour). However, there is an inconsistency between ... -
Meta-analysis of five genome-wide association studies identifies multiple new loci associated with testicular germ cell tumor.
Wang, Z; McGlynn, KA; Rajpert-De Meyts, E; Bishop, DT; Chung, CC; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2017-07-01)The international Testicular Cancer Consortium (TECAC) combined five published genome-wide association studies of testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT; 3,558 cases and 13,970 controls) to identify new susceptibility loci. We ... -
Promoter capture Hi-C-based identification of recurrent noncoding mutations in colorectal cancer.
Orlando, G; Law, PJ; Cornish, AJ; Dobbins, SE; Chubb, D; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018-10-01)Efforts are being directed to systematically analyze the non-coding regions of the genome for cancer-driving mutations1-6. cis-regulatory elements (CREs) represent a highly enriched subset of the non-coding regions of the ... -
Rare disruptive mutations in ciliary function genes contribute to testicular cancer susceptibility.
Litchfield, K; Levy, M; Dudakia, D; Proszek, P; Shipley, C; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2016-12-20)Testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT) is the most common cancer in young men. Here we sought to identify risk factors for TGCT by performing whole-exome sequencing on 328 TGCT cases from 153 families, 634 sporadic TGCT cases ... -
Representative Sequencing: Unbiased Sampling of Solid Tumor Tissue.
Litchfield, K; Stanislaw, S; Spain, L; Gallegos, LL; Rowan, A; et al. (CELL PRESS, 2020-05-05)Although thousands of solid tumors have been sequenced to date, a fundamental under-sampling bias is inherent in current methodologies. This is caused by a tissue sample input of fixed dimensions (e.g., 6 mm biopsy), which ... -
Runs of homozygosity and testicular cancer risk.
Loveday, C; Sud, A; Litchfield, K; Levy, M; Holroyd, A; et al. (WILEY, 2019-07-01)BACKGROUND: Testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT) is highly heritable but > 50% of the genetic risk remains unexplained. Epidemiological observation of greater relative risk to brothers of men with TGCT compared to sons has ... -
The genomic landscape of testicular germ cell tumours: from susceptibility to treatment.
Litchfield, K; Levy, M; Huddart, RA; Shipley, J; Turnbull, C (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2016-07-01)The genomic landscape of testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT) can be summarized using four overarching hypotheses. Firstly, TGCT risk is dominated by inherited genetic factors, which determine nearly half of all disease risk ... -
Tracking Cancer Evolution Reveals Constrained Routes to Metastases: TRACERx Renal.
Turajlic, S; Xu, H; Litchfield, K; Rowan, A; Chambers, T; et al. (CELL PRESS, 2018-04-19)Clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) exhibits a broad range of metastatic phenotypes that have not been systematically studied to date. Here, we analyzed 575 primary and 335 metastatic biopsies across 100 patients with ... -
Validation of loci at 2q14.2 and 15q21.3 as risk factors for testicular cancer.
Loveday, C; Litchfield, K; Levy, M; Holroyd, A; Broderick, P; et al. (Impact Journals, LLC, 2018-02-27)Testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT), the most common cancer in men aged 18 to 45 years, has a strong heritable basis. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have proposed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at a number ... -
Whole-exome sequencing reveals the mutational spectrum of testicular germ cell tumours.
Litchfield, K; Summersgill, B; Yost, S; Sultana, R; Labreche, K; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2015-01-22)Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) are the most common cancer in young men. Here we perform whole-exome sequencing (WES) of 42 TGCTs to comprehensively study the cancer's mutational profile. The mutation rate is uniformly ...