Browsing Genetics and Epidemiology by author "Houlston, Richard"
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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 cross-cancer fine-mapping of the 5p15.33 region reveals multiple independent signals.
Chen, H; Majumdar, A; Wang, L; Kar, S; Brown, KM; et al. (ELSEVIER, 2021-07-08)Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified thousands of cancer risk loci revealing many risk regions shared across multiple cancers. Characterizing the cross-cancer shared genetic basis can increase our ... -
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 ... -
Leveraging Genome and Phenome-Wide Association Studies to Investigate Genetic Risk of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Semmes, EC; Vijayakrishnan, J; Zhang, C; Hurst, JH; Houlston, RS; et al. (AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2020-08-01)BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of childhood cancers remain limited, highlighting the need for novel analytic strategies. We describe a hybrid GWAS and phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) approach ... -
Leveraging Human Genetics to Guide Cancer Drug Development.
Kinnersley, B; Sud, A; Coker, EA; Tym, JE; Di Micco, P; et al. (AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2018-11-21)PURPOSE: The high attrition rate of cancer drug development programs is a barrier to realizing the promise of precision oncology. We have examined whether the genetic insights from genome-wide association studies of cancer ... -
Low expression of hexokinase-2 is associated with false-negative FDG-positron emission tomography in multiple myeloma.
Rasche, L; Angtuaco, E; McDonald, JE; Buros, A; Stein, C; et al. (AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY, 2017-07-06)18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging with background signal suppression (DWIBS) are 2 powerful functional imaging modalities in the evaluation ... -
Lung Cancer Risk in Never-Smokers of European Descent is Associated With Genetic Variation in the 5p15.33 TERT-CLPTM1Ll Region.
Hung, RJ; Spitz, MR; Houlston, RS; Schwartz, AG; Field, JK; et al. (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2019-08-01)INTRODUCTION: Inherited susceptibility to lung cancer risk in never-smokers is poorly understood. The major reason for this gap in knowledge is that this disease is relatively uncommon (except in Asians), making it difficult ... -
Meeting report from the joint IARC-NCI international cancer seminar series: a focus on colorectal cancer.
Gunter, MJ; Alhomoud, S; Arnold, M; Brenner, H; Burn, J; et al. (ELSEVIER, 2019-04-01)Despite significant progress in our understanding of the etiology, biology and genetics of colorectal cancer, as well as important clinical advances, it remains the third most frequently diagnosed cancer worldwide and is ... -
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 ... -
Mendelian randomisation analysis strongly implicates adiposity with risk of developing colorectal cancer.
Jarvis, D; Mitchell, JS; Law, PJ; Palin, K; Tuupanen, S; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2016-07-12)BACKGROUND: Observational studies have associated adiposity with an increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, such studies do not establish a causal relationship. To minimise bias from confounding we performed a ... -
Mendelian randomisation implicates hyperlipidaemia as a risk factor for colorectal cancer.
Rodriguez-Broadbent, H; Law, PJ; Sud, A; Palin, K; Tuupanen, S; et al. (WILEY, 2017-06-15)While elevated blood cholesterol has been associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in observational studies, causality is uncertain. Here we apply a Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis to examine the ... -
Mendelian randomisation study of the relationship between vitamin D and risk of glioma.
Takahashi, H; Cornish, AJ; Sud, A; Law, PJ; Kinnersley, B; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2018-02-05)To examine for a causal relationship between vitamin D and glioma risk we performed an analysis of genetic variants associated with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels using Mendelian randomisation (MR), an approach ... -
Mendelian randomisation: A powerful and inexpensive method for identifying and excluding non-genetic risk factors for colorectal cancer.
Cornish, AJ; Tomlinson, IPM; Houlston, RS (ELSEVIER, 2019-10-01)Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in economically developed countries and a major cause of cancer-related mortality. The importance of lifestyle and diet as major determinants of CRC risk is suggested ... -
Mendelian randomization provides support for obesity as a risk factor for meningioma.
Takahashi, H; Cornish, AJ; Sud, A; Law, PJ; Disney-Hogg, L; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2019-01-22)Little is known about the causes of meningioma. Obesity and obesity-related traits have been reported in several epidemiological observational studies to be risk factors for meningioma. We performed an analysis of genetic ... -
Modeling the prevention of colorectal cancer from the combined impact of host and behavioral risk factors.
Frampton, M; Houlston, RS (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2017-03-01)PURPOSE: This study investigated the utility of modeling modifiable lifestyle risk factors in addition to genetic variation in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening/prevention. METHODS: We derived a polygenic risk score for ... -
Modifiable pathways for colorectal cancer: a mendelian randomisation analysis.
Cornish, AJ; Law, PJ; Timofeeva, M; Palin, K; Farrington, SM; et al. (ELSEVIER INC, 2020-01-01)BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies have linked lifestyle, cardiometabolic, reproductive, developmental, and inflammatory factors to the risk of colorectal cancer. However, which specific factors affect risk and the strength ... -
Multiple myeloma risk variant at 7p15.3 creates an IRF4-binding site and interferes with CDCA7L expression.
Li, N; Johnson, DC; Weinhold, N; Studd, JB; Orlando, G; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2016-11-24)Genome-wide association studies have identified several risk loci for multiple myeloma (MM); however, the mechanisms by which they influence MM are unknown. Here by using genetic association data and functional characterization, ... -
Mutational processes contributing to the development of multiple myeloma.
Hoang, PH; Cornish, AJ; Dobbins, SE; Kaiser, M; Houlston, RS (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2019-08-06)To gain insight into multiple myeloma (MM) tumorigenesis, we analyzed the mutational signatures in 874 whole-exome and 850 whole-genome data from the CoMMpass Study. We identified that coding and non-coding regions are ... -
Novel genetic variants in the P38MAPK pathway gene ZAK and susceptibility to lung cancer.
Feng, Y; Wang, Y; Liu, H; Liu, Z; Mills, C; et al. (WILEY, 2018-02-01)The P38MAPK pathway participates in regulating cell cycle, inflammation, development, cell death, cell differentiation, and tumorigenesis. Genetic variants of some genes in the P38MAPK pathway are reportedly associated ... -
Ovarian and Breast Cancer Risks Associated With Pathogenic Variants in RAD51C and RAD51D.
Yang, X; Song, H; Leslie, G; Engel, C; Hahnen, E; et al. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2020-12-14)BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to estimate precise age-specific tubo-ovarian carcinoma (TOC) and breast cancer (BC) risks for carriers of pathogenic variants in RAD51C and RAD51D. METHODS: We analyzed data from ...