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1. Feasibility of precision smoking treatment in a low-income community setting: results of a pilot randomized controlled trial in The Southern Community Cohort Study

Author: Lee, Scott S., Senft Everson, Nicole, Sanderson, Maureen, Selove, Rebecca, Blot, William J., King, Stephen, Gilliam, Karen, Kundu, Suman, Steinwandel, Mark, Sternlieb, Sarah J., Cai, Qiuyin, Warren Andersen, Shaneda, Friedman, Debra L., Connors Kelly, Erin, Fadden, Mary Kay, Freiberg, Matthew S., Wells, Quinn S., Canedo, Juan, Tyndale, Rachel F., Young, Robert P., Hopkins, Raewyn J., and Tindle, Hilary A.
Published: 2024
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2. Prostate cancer risk stratification improvement across multiple ancestries with new polygenic hazard score

Author: Huynh-Le, Minh-Phuong, Karunamuni, Roshan, Fan, Chun Chieh, Asona, Lui, Thompson, Wesley K, Martinez, Maria Elena, Eeles, Rosalind A, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Muir, Kenneth R, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Schleutker, Johanna, Pashayan, Nora, Batra, Jyotsna, Grönberg, Henrik, Neal, David E, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Tangen, Catherine M, MacInnis, Robert J, Wolk, Alicja, Albanes, Demetrius, Haiman, Christopher A, Travis, Ruth C, Blot, William J, Stanford, Janet L, Mucci, Lorelei A, West, Catharine ML, Nielsen, Sune F, Kibel, Adam S, Cussenot, Olivier, Berndt, Sonja I, Koutros, Stella, Sørensen, Karina Dalsgaard, Cybulski, Cezary, Grindedal, Eli Marie, Menegaux, Florence, Park, Jong Y, Ingles, Sue A, Maier, Christiane, Hamilton, Robert J, Rosenstein, Barry S, Lu, Yong-Jie, Watya, Stephen, Vega, Ana, Kogevinas, Manolis, Wiklund, Fredrik, Penney, Kathryn L, Huff, Chad D, Teixeira, Manuel R, Multigner, Luc, Leach, Robin J, Brenner, Hermann, John, Esther M, Kaneva, Radka, Logothetis, Christopher J, Neuhausen, Susan L, De Ruyck, Kim, Ost, Piet, Razack, Azad, Newcomb, Lisa F, Fowke, Jay H, Gamulin, Marija, Abraham, Aswin, Claessens, Frank, Castelao, Jose Esteban, Townsend, Paul A, Crawford, Dana C, Petrovics, Gyorgy, van Schaik, Ron HN, Parent, Marie-Élise, Hu, Jennifer J, Zheng, Wei, Mills, Ian G, Andreassen, Ole A, Dale, Anders M, and Seibert, Tyler M
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Aging, Prostate Cancer, Cancer, Urologic Diseases, Prevention, Genetics, Good Health and Well Being, Male, Humans, Prostate-Specific Antigen, Prostatic Neoplasms, Early Detection of Cancer, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, Risk Assessment, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, UKGPCS collaborators, APCB, NC-LA PCaP Investigators, IMPACT Study Steering Committee and Collaborators, Canary PASS Investigators, Profile Study Steering Committee, PRACTICAL Consortium, Urology & Nephrology, Clinical sciences, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract: BackgroundProstate cancer risk stratification using single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) demonstrates considerable promise in men of European, Asian, and African genetic ancestries, but there is still need for increased accuracy. We evaluated whether including additional SNPs in a prostate cancer polygenic hazard score (PHS) would improve associations with clinically significant prostate cancer in multi-ancestry datasets.MethodsIn total, 299 SNPs previously associated with prostate cancer were evaluated for inclusion in a new PHS, using a LASSO-regularized Cox proportional hazards model in a training dataset of 72,181 men from the PRACTICAL Consortium. The PHS model was evaluated in four testing datasets: African ancestry, Asian ancestry, and two of European Ancestry-the Cohort of Swedish Men (COSM) and the ProtecT study. Hazard ratios (HRs) were estimated to compare men with high versus low PHS for association with clinically significant, with any, and with fatal prostate cancer. The impact of genetic risk stratification on the positive predictive value (PPV) of PSA testing for clinically significant prostate cancer was also measured.ResultsThe final model (PHS290) had 290 SNPs with non-zero coefficients. Comparing, for example, the highest and lowest quintiles of PHS290, the hazard ratios (HRs) for clinically significant prostate cancer were 13.73 [95% CI: 12.43-15.16] in ProtecT, 7.07 [6.58-7.60] in African ancestry, 10.31 [9.58-11.11] in Asian ancestry, and 11.18 [10.34-12.09] in COSM. Similar results were seen for association with any and fatal prostate cancer. Without PHS stratification, the PPV of PSA testing for clinically significant prostate cancer in ProtecT was 0.12 (0.11-0.14). For the top 20% and top 5% of PHS290, the PPV of PSA testing was 0.19 (0.15-0.22) and 0.26 (0.19-0.33), respectively.ConclusionsWe demonstrate better genetic risk stratification for clinically significant prostate cancer than prior versions of PHS in multi-ancestry datasets. This is promising for implementing precision-medicine approaches to prostate cancer screening decisions in diverse populations.
Published: 2022

3. Diet quality and lung cancer incidence in a low-income population in the United States

Author: Munro, Heather M., Yu, Danxia, Zheng, Wei, Blot, William J., Cai, Qiuyin, and Shrubsole, Martha J.
Published: 2023
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4. Performance of African-ancestry-specific polygenic hazard score varies according to local ancestry in 8q24

Author: Karunamuni, Roshan A, Huynh-Le, Minh-Phuong, Fan, Chun C, Thompson, Wesley, Lui, Asona, Martinez, Maria Elena, Rose, Brent S, Mahal, Brandon, Eeles, Rosalind A, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Muir, Kenneth, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Tangen, Catherine M, Goodman, Phyllis J, Thompson, Ian M, Blot, William J, Zheng, Wei, Kibel, Adam S, Drake, Bettina F, Cussenot, Olivier, Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, Menegaux, Florence, Truong, Thérèse, Park, Jong Y, Lin, Hui-Yi, Taylor, Jack A, Bensen, Jeannette T, Mohler, James L, Fontham, Elizabeth TH, Multigner, Luc, Blanchet, Pascal, Brureau, Laurent, Romana, Marc, Leach, Robin J, John, Esther M, Fowke, Jay H, Bush, William S, Aldrich, Melinda C, Crawford, Dana C, Cullen, Jennifer, Petrovics, Gyorgy, Parent, Marie-Élise, Hu, Jennifer J, Sanderson, Maureen, Mills, Ian G, Andreassen, Ole A, Dale, Anders M, and Seibert, Tyler M
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Prostate Cancer, Prevention, Genetics, Cancer, Urologic Diseases, Black People, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Male, Multifactorial Inheritance, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, Risk Assessment, White People, UKGPCS Collaborators, PRACTICAL Consortium, Urology & Nephrology, Clinical sciences, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract: BackgroundWe previously developed an African-ancestry-specific polygenic hazard score (PHS46+African) that substantially improved prostate cancer risk stratification in men with African ancestry. The model consists of 46 SNPs identified in Europeans and 3 SNPs from 8q24 shown to improve model performance in Africans. Herein, we used principal component (PC) analysis to uncover subpopulations of men with African ancestry for whom the utility of PHS46+African may differ.Materials and methodsGenotypic data were obtained from the PRACTICAL consortium for 6253 men with African genetic ancestry. Genetic variation in a window spanning 3 African-specific 8q24 SNPs was estimated using 93 PCs. A Cox proportional hazards framework was used to identify the pair of PCs most strongly associated with the performance of PHS46+African. A calibration factor (CF) was formulated using Cox coefficients to quantify the extent to which the performance of PHS46+African varies with PC.ResultsCF of PHS46+African was strongly associated with the first and twentieth PCs. Predicted CF ranged from 0.41 to 2.94, suggesting that PHS46+African may be up to 7 times more beneficial to some African men than others. The explained relative risk for PHS46+African varied from 3.6% to 9.9% for individuals with low and high CF values, respectively. By cross-referencing our data set with 1000 Genomes, we identified significant associations between continental and calibration groupings.ConclusionWe identified PCs within 8q24 that were strongly associated with the performance of PHS46+African. Further research to improve the clinical utility of polygenic risk scores (or models) is needed to improve health outcomes for men of African ancestry.
Published: 2022

5. Epigenome-wide association study of total nicotine equivalents in multiethnic current smokers from three prospective cohorts

Author: Huang, Brian Z., Binder, Alexandra M., Quon, Brandon, Patel, Yesha M., Lum-Jones, Annette, Tiirikainen, Maarit, Murphy, Sharon E., Loo, Lenora, Maunakea, Alika K., Haiman, Christopher A., Wilkens, Lynne R., Koh, Woon-Puay, Cai, Qiuyin, Aldrich, Melinda C., Siegmund, Kimberly D., Hecht, Stephen S., Yuan, Jian-Min, Blot, William J., Stram, Daniel O., Le Marchand, Loïc, and Park, Sungshim L.
Published: 2024
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6. Association between circulating inflammatory markers and adult cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis

Author: Landi, Maria Teresa, Stevens, Victoria, Wang, Ying, Albanes, Demetrios, Caporaso, Neil, Brennan, Paul, Amos, Christopher I., Shete, Sanjay, Hung, Rayjean J., Bickeböller, Heike, Risch, Angela, Houlston, Richard, Lam, Stephen, Tardon, Adonina, Chen, Chu, Bojesen, Stig E., Johansson, Mattias, Wichmann, H-Erich, Christiani, David, Rennert, Gadi, Arnold, Susanne, Field, John K., Le Marchand, Loic, Melander, Olle, Brunnström, Hans, Liu, Geoffrey, Andrew, Angeline, Kiemeney, Lambertus A., Shen, Hongbing, Zienolddiny, Shan, Grankvist, Kjell, Johansson, Mikael, Teare, M. Dawn, Hong, Yun-Chul, Yuan, Jian-Min, Lazarus, Philip, Schabath, Matthew B., Aldrich, Melinda C., Eeles, Rosalind A., Haiman, Christopher A., Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Schumacher, Fredrick R., Benlloch, Sara, Al Olama, Ali Amin, Muir, Kenneth R., Berndt, Sonja I., Conti, David V., Wiklund, Fredrik, Chanock, Stephen, Tangen, Catherine M., Batra, Jyotsna, Clements, Judith A., Grönberg, Henrik, Pashayan, Nora, Schleutker, Johanna, Albanes, Demetrius, Weinstein, Stephanie J., Wolk, Alicja, West, Catharine M.L., Mucci, Lorelei A., Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, Koutros, Stella, Sørensen, Karina Dalsgaard, Grindedal, Eli Marie, Neal, David E., Hamdy, Freddie C., Donovan, Jenny L., Travis, Ruth C., Hamilton, Robert J., Ingles, Sue Ann, Rosenstein, Barry S., Lu, Yong-Jie, Giles, Graham G., MacInnis, Robert J., Kibel, Adam S., Vega, Ana, Kogevinas, Manolis, Penney, Kathryn L., Park, Jong Y., Stanfrod, Janet L., Cybulski, Cezary, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Nielsen, Sune F., Brenner, Hermann, Maier, Christiane, Logothetis, Christopher J., John, Esther M., Teixeira, Manuel R., Neuhausen, Susan L., De Ruyck, Kim, Razack, Azad, Newcomb, Lisa F., Lessel, Davor, Kaneva, Radka, Usmani, Nawaid, Claessens, Frank, Townsend, Paul A., Castelao, Jose Esteban, Roobol, Monique J., Menegaux, Florence, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Pandha, Hardev, Thibodeau, Stephen N., Hunter, David J., Kraft, Peter, Blot, William J., Riboli, Elio, Yarmolinsky, James, Robinson, Jamie W., Mariosa, Daniela, Karhunen, Ville, Huang, Jian, Dimou, Niki, Murphy, Neil, Burrows, Kimberley, Bouras, Emmanouil, Smith-Byrne, Karl, Lewis, Sarah J., Galesloot, Tessel E., Vermeulen, Sita, Martin, Paul, Hou, Lifang, Newcomb, Polly A., White, Emily, Wu, Anna H., Le Marchand, Loïc, Phipps, Amanda I., Buchanan, Daniel D., Zhao, Sizheng Steven, Gill, Dipender, Chanock, Stephen J., Purdue, Mark P., Davey Smith, George, Herzig, Karl-Heinz, Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Amos, Chris I., Dehghan, Abbas, Gunter, Marc J., Tsilidis, Kostas K., and Martin, Richard M.
Published: 2024
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7. Performance of African-ancestry-specific polygenic hazard score varies according to local ancestry in 8q24.

Author: Karunamuni, Roshan A, Huynh-Le, Minh-Phuong, Fan, Chun C, Thompson, Wesley, Lui, Asona, Martinez, Maria Elena, Rose, Brent S, Mahal, Brandon, Eeles, Rosalind A, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Muir, Kenneth, Lophatananon, Artitaya, UKGPCS Collaborators, Tangen, Catherine M, Goodman, Phyllis J, Thompson, Ian M, Blot, William J, Zheng, Wei, Kibel, Adam S, Drake, Bettina F, Cussenot, Olivier, Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, Menegaux, Florence, Truong, Thérèse, Park, Jong Y, Lin, Hui-Yi, Taylor, Jack A, Bensen, Jeannette T, Mohler, James L, Fontham, Elizabeth TH, Multigner, Luc, Blanchet, Pascal, Brureau, Laurent, Romana, Marc, Leach, Robin J, John, Esther M, Fowke, Jay H, Bush, William S, Aldrich, Melinda C, Crawford, Dana C, Cullen, Jennifer, Petrovics, Gyorgy, Parent, Marie-Élise, Hu, Jennifer J, Sanderson, Maureen, PRACTICAL Consortium, Mills, Ian G, Andreassen, Ole A, Dale, Anders M, and Seibert, Tyler M
Subjects: UKGPCS Collaborators, PRACTICAL Consortium, Urologic Diseases, Prevention, Genetics, Prostate Cancer, Cancer, Urology & Nephrology, Oncology and Carcinogenesis
Abstract: BackgroundWe previously developed an African-ancestry-specific polygenic hazard score (PHS46+African) that substantially improved prostate cancer risk stratification in men with African ancestry. The model consists of 46 SNPs identified in Europeans and 3 SNPs from 8q24 shown to improve model performance in Africans. Herein, we used principal component (PC) analysis to uncover subpopulations of men with African ancestry for whom the utility of PHS46+African may differ.Materials and methodsGenotypic data were obtained from the PRACTICAL consortium for 6253 men with African genetic ancestry. Genetic variation in a window spanning 3 African-specific 8q24 SNPs was estimated using 93 PCs. A Cox proportional hazards framework was used to identify the pair of PCs most strongly associated with the performance of PHS46+African. A calibration factor (CF) was formulated using Cox coefficients to quantify the extent to which the performance of PHS46+African varies with PC.ResultsCF of PHS46+African was strongly associated with the first and twentieth PCs. Predicted CF ranged from 0.41 to 2.94, suggesting that PHS46+African may be up to 7 times more beneficial to some African men than others. The explained relative risk for PHS46+African varied from 3.6% to 9.9% for individuals with low and high CF values, respectively. By cross-referencing our data set with 1000 Genomes, we identified significant associations between continental and calibration groupings.ConclusionWe identified PCs within 8q24 that were strongly associated with the performance of PHS46+African. Further research to improve the clinical utility of polygenic risk scores (or models) is needed to improve health outcomes for men of African ancestry.
Published: 2021

8. Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry

Author: Graff, Mariaelisa, Justice, Anne E, Young, Kristin L, Marouli, Eirini, Zhang, Xinruo, Fine, Rebecca S, Lim, Elise, Buchanan, Victoria, Rand, Kristin, Feitosa, Mary F, Wojczynski, Mary K, Yanek, Lisa R, Shao, Yaming, Rohde, Rebecca, Adeyemo, Adebowale A, Aldrich, Melinda C, Allison, Matthew A, Ambrosone, Christine B, Ambs, Stefan, Amos, Christopher, Arnett, Donna K, Atwood, Larry, Bandera, Elisa V, Bartz, Traci, Becker, Diane M, Berndt, Sonja I, Bernstein, Leslie, Bielak, Lawrence F, Blot, William J, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bowden, Donald W, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Brody, Jennifer A, Broeckel, Ulrich, Burke, Gregory, Cade, Brian E, Cai, Qiuyin, Caporaso, Neil, Carlson, Chris, Carpten, John, Casey, Graham, Chanock, Stephen J, Chen, Guanjie, Chen, Minhui, Chen, Yii-Der I, Chen, Wei-Min, Chesi, Alessandra, Chiang, Charleston WK, Chu, Lisa, Coetzee, Gerry A, Conti, David V, Cooper, Richard S, Cushman, Mary, Demerath, Ellen, Deming, Sandra L, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Ding, Jingzhong, Diver, W Ryan, Duan, Qing, Evans, Michele K, Falusi, Adeyinka G, Faul, Jessica D, Fornage, Myriam, Fox, Caroline, Freedman, Barry I, Garcia, Melissa, Gillanders, Elizabeth M, Goodman, Phyllis, Gottesman, Omri, Grant, Struan FA, Guo, Xiuqing, Hakonarson, Hakon, Haritunians, Talin, Harris, Tamara B, Harris, Curtis C, Henderson, Brian E, Hennis, Anselm, Hernandez, Dena G, Hirschhorn, Joel N, McNeill, Lorna Haughton, Howard, Timothy D, Howard, Barbara, Hsing, Ann W, Hsu, Yu-Han H, Hu, Jennifer J, Huff, Chad D, Huo, Dezheng, Ingles, Sue A, Irvin, Marguerite R, John, Esther M, Johnson, Karen C, Jordan, Joanne M, Kabagambe, Edmond K, Kang, Sun J, Kardia, Sharon L, Keating, Brendan J, Kittles, Rick A, Klein, Eric A, Kolb, Suzanne, and Kolonel, Laurence N
Subjects: Human Genome, Genetics, Africa, Black or African American, Black People, Body Height, Europe, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African ancestry, fine-mapping, genome-wide, height, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract: Although many loci have been associated with height in European ancestry populations, very few have been identified in African ancestry individuals. Furthermore, many of the known loci have yet to be generalized to and fine-mapped within a large-scale African ancestry sample. We performed sex-combined and sex-stratified meta-analyses in up to 52,764 individuals with height and genome-wide genotyping data from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC). We additionally combined our African ancestry meta-analysis results with published European genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. In the African ancestry analyses, we identified three novel loci (SLC4A3, NCOA2, ECD/FAM149B1) in sex-combined results and two loci (CRB1, KLF6) in women only. In the African plus European sex-combined GWAS, we identified an additional three novel loci (RCCD1, G6PC3, CEP95) which were equally driven by AAAGC and European results. Among 39 genome-wide significant signals at known loci, conditioning index SNPs from European studies identified 20 secondary signals. Two of the 20 new secondary signals and none of the 8 novel loci had minor allele frequencies (MAF) < 5%. Of 802 known European height signals, 643 displayed directionally consistent associations with height, of which 205 were nominally significant (p < 0.05) in the African ancestry sex-combined sample. Furthermore, 148 of 241 loci contained ≤20 variants in the credible sets that jointly account for 99% of the posterior probability of driving the associations. In summary, trans-ethnic meta-analyses revealed novel signals and further improved fine-mapping of putative causal variants in loci shared between African and European ancestry populations.
Published: 2021

9. Polygenic hazard score is associated with prostate cancer in multi-ethnic populations.

Author: Huynh-Le, Minh-Phuong, Fan, Chun Chieh, Karunamuni, Roshan, Thompson, Wesley K, Martinez, Maria Elena, Eeles, Rosalind A, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Muir, Kenneth, Schleutker, Johanna, Pashayan, Nora, Batra, Jyotsna, Grönberg, Henrik, Neal, David E, Donovan, Jenny L, Hamdy, Freddie C, Martin, Richard M, Nielsen, Sune F, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Wiklund, Fredrik, Tangen, Catherine M, Giles, Graham G, Wolk, Alicja, Albanes, Demetrius, Travis, Ruth C, Blot, William J, Zheng, Wei, Sanderson, Maureen, Stanford, Janet L, Mucci, Lorelei A, West, Catharine ML, Kibel, Adam S, Cussenot, Olivier, Berndt, Sonja I, Koutros, Stella, Sørensen, Karina Dalsgaard, Cybulski, Cezary, Grindedal, Eli Marie, Menegaux, Florence, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Park, Jong Y, Ingles, Sue A, Maier, Christiane, Hamilton, Robert J, Thibodeau, Stephen N, Rosenstein, Barry S, Lu, Yong-Jie, Watya, Stephen, Vega, Ana, Kogevinas, Manolis, Penney, Kathryn L, Huff, Chad, Teixeira, Manuel R, Multigner, Luc, Leach, Robin J, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Brenner, Hermann, John, Esther M, Kaneva, Radka, Logothetis, Christopher J, Neuhausen, Susan L, De Ruyck, Kim, Pandha, Hardev, Razack, Azad, Newcomb, Lisa F, Fowke, Jay H, Gamulin, Marija, Usmani, Nawaid, Claessens, Frank, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Townsend, Paul A, Bush, William S, Roobol, Monique J, Parent, Marie-Élise, Hu, Jennifer J, Mills, Ian G, Andreassen, Ole A, Dale, Anders M, Seibert, Tyler M, UKGPCS collaborators, APCB (Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource), NC-LA PCaP Investigators, IMPACT Study Steering Committee and Collaborators, Canary PASS Investigators, Profile Study Steering Committee, and PRACTICAL Consortium
Subjects: UKGPCS collaborators, APCB, NC-LA PCaP Investigators, IMPACT Study Steering Committee and Collaborators, Canary PASS Investigators, Profile Study Steering Committee, PRACTICAL Consortium, Humans, Prostatic Neoplasms, Neoplasm Invasiveness, Multivariate Analysis, Multifactorial Inheritance, Aged, Middle Aged, Ethnic Groups, Male, Self Report, Aging, Urologic Diseases, Cancer, Prostate Cancer
Abstract: Genetic models for cancer have been evaluated using almost exclusively European data, which could exacerbate health disparities. A polygenic hazard score (PHS1) is associated with age at prostate cancer diagnosis and improves screening accuracy in Europeans. Here, we evaluate performance of PHS2 (PHS1, adapted for OncoArray) in a multi-ethnic dataset of 80,491 men (49,916 cases, 30,575 controls). PHS2 is associated with age at diagnosis of any and aggressive (Gleason score ≥ 7, stage T3-T4, PSA ≥ 10 ng/mL, or nodal/distant metastasis) cancer and prostate-cancer-specific death. Associations with cancer are significant within European (n = 71,856), Asian (n = 2,382), and African (n = 6,253) genetic ancestries (p
Published: 2021

10. African-specific improvement of a polygenic hazard score for age at diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Author: Karunamuni, Roshan A, Huynh-Le, Minh-Phuong, Fan, Chun C, Thompson, Wesley, Eeles, Rosalind A, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Muir, Kenneth, UKGPCS Collaborators, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Tangen, Catherine M, Goodman, Phyllis J, Thompson, Ian M, Blot, William J, Zheng, Wei, Kibel, Adam S, Drake, Bettina F, Cussenot, Olivier, Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, Menegaux, Florence, Truong, Thérèse, Park, Jong Y, Lin, Hui-Yi, Bensen, Jeannette T, Fontham, Elizabeth TH, Mohler, James L, Taylor, Jack A, Multigner, Luc, Blanchet, Pascal, Brureau, Laurent, Romana, Marc, Leach, Robin J, John, Esther M, Fowke, Jay, Bush, William S, Aldrich, Melinda, Crawford, Dana C, Srivastava, Shiv, Cullen, Jennifer C, Petrovics, Gyorgy, Parent, Marie-Élise, Hu, Jennifer J, Sanderson, Maureen, Mills, Ian G, Andreassen, Ole A, Dale, Anders M, Seibert, Tyler M, and PRACTICAL Consortium
Subjects: UKGPCS Collaborators, PRACTICAL Consortium, Humans, Prostatic Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Proportional Hazards Models, Case-Control Studies, Age Factors, Multifactorial Inheritance, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Models, Genetic, Middle Aged, African Continental Ancestry Group, Male, Genotyping Techniques, African, genome wide association study, genomics, genotypic ancestry, health disparities, polygenic risk, prostate cancer, Aging, Genetics, Urologic Diseases, Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Prevention, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and Carcinogenesis
Abstract: Polygenic hazard score (PHS) models are associated with age at diagnosis of prostate cancer. Our model developed in Europeans (PHS46) showed reduced performance in men with African genetic ancestry. We used a cross-validated search to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that might improve performance in this population. Anonymized genotypic data were obtained from the PRACTICAL consortium for 6253 men with African genetic ancestry. Ten iterations of a 10-fold cross-validation search were conducted to select SNPs that would be included in the final PHS46+African model. The coefficients of PHS46+African were estimated in a Cox proportional hazards framework using age at diagnosis as the dependent variable and PHS46, and selected SNPs as predictors. The performance of PHS46 and PHS46+African was compared using the same cross-validated approach. Three SNPs (rs76229939, rs74421890 and rs5013678) were selected for inclusion in PHS46+African. All three SNPs are located on chromosome 8q24. PHS46+African showed substantial improvements in all performance metrics measured, including a 75% increase in the relative hazard of those in the upper 20% compared to the bottom 20% (2.47-4.34) and a 20% reduction in the relative hazard of those in the bottom 20% compared to the middle 40% (0.65-0.53). In conclusion, we identified three SNPs that substantially improved the association of PHS46 with age at diagnosis of prostate cancer in men with African genetic ancestry to levels comparable to Europeans.
Published: 2021

11. Calcium Intake and Lung Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of 12 Prospective Cohort Studies

Author: Takata, Yumie, Yang, Jae Jeong, Yu, Danxia, Smith-Warner, Stephanie A., Blot, William J., White, Emily, Robien, Kimberly, Prizment, Anna, Wu, Kana, Sawada, Norie, Lan, Qing, Park, Yikyung, Gao, Yu-Tang, Cai, Qiuyin, Song, Mingyang, Zhang, Xuehong, Pan, Kathy, Agudo, Antonio, Panico, Salvatore, Liao, Linda M., Tsugane, Shoichiro, Chlebowski, Rowan T., Nøst, Therese Haugdahl, Schulze, Matthias B., Johannson, Mattias, Zheng, Wei, and Shu, Xiao-Ou
Published: 2023
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12. A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of multiple myeloma among men and women of African ancestry

Author: Du, Zhaohui, Weinhold, Niels, Song, Gregory Chi, Rand, Kristin A, Van Den Berg, David J, Hwang, Amie E, Sheng, Xin, Hom, Victor, Ailawadhi, Sikander, Nooka, Ajay K, Singhal, Seema, Pawlish, Karen, Peters, Edward S, Bock, Cathryn, Mohrbacher, Ann, Stram, Alexander, Berndt, Sonja I, Blot, William J, Casey, Graham, Stevens, Victoria L, Kittles, Rick, Goodman, Phyllis J, Diver, W Ryan, Hennis, Anselm, Nemesure, Barbara, Klein, Eric A, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Stanford, Janet L, Witte, John S, Signorello, Lisa, John, Esther M, Bernstein, Leslie, Stroup, Antoinette M, Stephens, Owen W, Zangari, Maurizio, Van Rhee, Frits, Olshan, Andrew, Zheng, Wei, Hu, Jennifer J, Ziegler, Regina, Nyante, Sarah J, Ingles, Sue Ann, Press, Michael F, Carpten, John David, Chanock, Stephen J, Mehta, Jayesh, Colditz, Graham A, Wolf, Jeffrey, Martin, Thomas G, Tomasson, Michael, Fiala, Mark A, Terebelo, Howard, Janakiraman, Nalini, Kolonel, Laurence, Anderson, Kenneth C, Le Marchand, Loic, Auclair, Daniel, Chiu, Brian C-H, Ziv, Elad, Stram, Daniel, Vij, Ravi, Bernal-Mizrachi, Leon, Morgan, Gareth J, Zonder, Jeffrey A, Huff, Carol Ann, Lonial, Sagar, Orlowski, Robert Z, Conti, David V, Haiman, Christopher A, and Cozen, Wendy
Subjects: Hematology, Rare Diseases, Genetics, Cancer, Clinical Research, Prevention, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Multiple Myeloma, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Transcriptional Elongation Factors
Abstract: Persons of African ancestry (AA) have a twofold higher risk for multiple myeloma (MM) compared with persons of European ancestry (EA). Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) support a genetic contribution to MM etiology in individuals of EA. Little is known about genetic risk factors for MM in individuals of AA. We performed a meta-analysis of 2 GWASs of MM in 1813 cases and 8871 controls and conducted an admixture mapping scan to identify risk alleles. We fine-mapped the 23 known susceptibility loci to find markers that could better capture MM risk in individuals of AA and constructed a polygenic risk score (PRS) to assess the aggregated effect of known MM risk alleles. In GWAS meta-analysis, we identified 2 suggestive novel loci located at 9p24.3 and 9p13.1 at P < 1 × 10-6; however, no genome-wide significant association was noted. In admixture mapping, we observed a genome-wide significant inverse association between local AA at 2p24.1-23.1 and MM risk in AA individuals. Of the 23 known EA risk variants, 20 showed directional consistency, and 9 replicated at P < .05 in AA individuals. In 8 regions, we identified markers that better capture MM risk in persons with AA. AA individuals with a PRS in the top 10% had a 1.82-fold (95% confidence interval, 1.56-2.11) increased MM risk compared with those with average risk (25%-75%). The strongest functional association was between the risk allele for variant rs56219066 at 5q15 and lower ELL2 expression (P = 5.1 × 10-12). Our study shows that common genetic variation contributes to MM risk in individuals with AA.
Published: 2020

13. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) of circulating vitamin D outcomes among individuals of African ancestry

Author: Parlato, Lisa A., Welch, Rene, Ong, Irene M., Long, Jirong, Cai, Qiuyin, Steinwandel, Mark D., Blot, William J., Zheng, Wei, and Warren Andersen, Shaneda
Published: 2023
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14. Cross-Cancer Pleiotropic Associations with Lung Cancer Risk in African Americans

Author: Jones, Carissa C, Bradford, Yuki, Amos, Christopher I, Blot, William J, Chanock, Stephen J, Harris, Curtis C, Schwartz, Ann G, Spitz, Margaret R, Wiencke, John K, Wrensch, Margaret R, Wu, Xifeng, and Aldrich, Melinda C
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Services and Systems, Health Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Prevention, Lung Cancer, Clinical Research, Cancer, Tobacco Smoke and Health, Human Genome, Lung, Genetics, Tobacco, Cancer Genomics, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Black or African American, Case-Control Studies, Female, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Male, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Medical and Health Sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: BackgroundIdentifying genetic variants with pleiotropic associations across multiple cancers can reveal shared biologic pathways. Prior pleiotropic studies have primarily focused on European-descent individuals. Yet population-specific genetic variation can occur, and potential pleiotropic associations among diverse racial/ethnic populations could be missed. We examined cross-cancer pleiotropic associations with lung cancer risk in African Americans.MethodsWe conducted a pleiotropic analysis among 1,410 African American lung cancer cases and 2,843 controls. We examined 36,958 variants previously associated (or in linkage disequilibrium) with cancer in prior genome-wide association studies. Logistic regression analyses were conducted, adjusting for age, sex, global ancestry, study site, and smoking status.ResultsWe identified three novel genomic regions significantly associated (FDR-corrected P
Published: 2019

15. Depressive Symptoms and Incident Heart Failure Risk in the Southern Community Cohort Study

Author: Dixon, Debra D., Xu, Meng, Akwo, Elvis A., Nair, Devika, Schlundt, David, Wang, Thomas J., Blot, William J., Lipworth, Loren, and Gupta, Deepak K.
Published: 2022
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16. Sodium Intake and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Predominantly Low-Income Black and White US Residents

Author: Yoon, Hyung-Suk, primary, Cai, Qiuyin, additional, Yang, Jae Jeong, additional, Lipworth, Loren, additional, Cai, Hui, additional, Yu, Danxia, additional, Steinwandel, Mark D., additional, Gupta, Deepak K., additional, Blot, William J., additional, Zheng, Wei, additional, and Shu, Xiao-Ou, additional
Published: 2024
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17. Germline Genetic Variants and Lung Cancer Survival in African Americans

Author: Jones, Carissa C, Bush, William S, Crawford, Dana C, Wenzlaff, Angela S, Schwartz, Ann G, Wiencke, John K, Wrensch, Margaret R, Blot, William J, Chanock, Stephen J, Grogan, Eric L, and Aldrich, Melinda C
Subjects: Epidemiology, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Health Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Prevention, Cancer, Lung, Lung Cancer, Human Genome, Genetics, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Good Health and Well Being, Adult, Black or African American, Aged, Cohort Studies, Female, Genetic Variation, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Survival Analysis, Medical and Health Sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: Background: African Americans have the highest lung cancer mortality in the United States. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of germline variants influencing lung cancer survival have not yet been conducted with African Americans. We examined five previously reported GWAS catalog variants and explored additional genome-wide associations among African American lung cancer cases.Methods: Incident non-small cell lung cancer cases (N = 286) in the Southern Community Cohort Study were genotyped on the Illumina HumanExome BeadChip. We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate HRs and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for overall mortality. Two independent African American studies (N = 316 and 298) were used for replication.Results: One previously reported variant, rs1878022 on 12q23.3, was significantly associated with mortality (HR = 0.70; 95% CI: 0.54-0.92). Replication findings were in the same direction, although attenuated (HR = 0.87 and 0.94). Meta-analysis had a HR of 0.83 (95% CI, 0.71-0.97). Analysis of common variants identified an association between chromosome 6q21.33 and mortality (HR = 0.46; 95% CI, 0.33-0.66).Conclusions: We identified an association between rs1878022 in CMKLR1 and lung cancer survival. However, our results in African Americans have a different direction of effect compared with a prior study in European Americans, suggesting a different genetic architecture or presence of gene-environment interactions. We also identified variants on chromosome 6 within the gene-rich HLA region, which has been previously implicated in lung cancer risk and survival.Impact: We found evidence that inherited genetic risk factors influence lung cancer survival in African Americans. Replication in additional populations is necessary to confirm potential genetic differences in lung cancer survival across populations. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 26(8); 1288-95. ©2017 AACR.
Published: 2017

18. Two Novel Susceptibility Loci for Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry

Author: Conti, David V, Wang, Kan, Sheng, Xin, Bensen, Jeannette T, Hazelett, Dennis J, Cook, Michael B, Ingles, Sue A, Kittles, Rick A, Strom, Sara S, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Nemesure, Barbara, Isaacs, William B, Stanford, Janet L, Zheng, Wei, Sanderson, Maureen, John, Esther M, Park, Jong Y, Xu, Jianfeng, Stevens, Victoria L, Berndt, Sonja I, Huff, Chad D, Wang, Zhaoming, Yeboah, Edward D, Tettey, Yao, Biritwum, Richard B, Adjei, Andrew A, Tay, Evelyn, Truelove, Ann, Niwa, Shelley, Sellers, Thomas A, Yamoah, Kosj, Murphy, Adam B, Crawford, Dana C, Gapstur, Susan M, Bush, William S, Aldrich, Melinda C, Cussenot, Olivier, Petrovics, Gyorgy, Cullen, Jennifer, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Stern, Mariana C, Jarai, Zsofia-Kote, Govindasami, Koveela, Chokkalingam, Anand P, Hsing, Ann W, Goodman, Phyllis J, Hoffmann, Thomas, Drake, Bettina F, Hu, Jennifer J, Clark, Peter E, Van Den Eeden, Stephen K, Blanchet, Pascal, Fowke, Jay H, Casey, Graham, Hennis, Anselm JM, Han, Ying, Lubwama, Alexander, Thompson, Ian M, Leach, Robin, Easton, Douglas F, Schumacher, Fredrick, Van den Berg, David J, Gundell, Susan M, Stram, Alex, Wan, Peggy, Xia, Lucy, Pooler, Loreall C, Mohler, James L, Fontham, Elizabeth TH, Smith, Gary J, Taylor, Jack A, Srivastava, Shiv, Eeles, Rosalind A, Carpten, John, Kibel, Adam S, Multigner, Luc, Parent, Marie-Elise, Menegaux, Florence, Cancel-Tassin, Geraldine, Klein, Eric A, Brureau, Laurent, Stram, Daniel O, Watya, Stephen, Chanock, Stephen J, Witte, John S, Blot, William J, Henderson, Brian E, and Haiman, Christopher A
Subjects: Aging, Human Genome, Cancer, Prevention, Prostate Cancer, Biotechnology, Clinical Research, Genetics, Urologic Diseases, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Blacks, Case-Control Studies, Checkpoint Kinase 2, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22, Gene Frequency, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, PRACTICAL/ELLIPSE Consortium, Black People, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis
Abstract: Prostate cancer incidence is 1.6-fold higher in African Americans than in other populations. The risk factors that drive this disparity are unknown and potentially consist of social, environmental, and genetic influences. To investigate the genetic basis of prostate cancer in men of African ancestry, we performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis using two-sided statistical tests in 10 202 case subjects and 10 810 control subjects. We identified novel signals on chromosomes 13q34 and 22q12, with the risk-associated alleles found only in men of African ancestry (13q34: rs75823044, risk allele frequency = 2.2%, odds ratio [OR] = 1.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.37 to 1.76, P = 6.10 × 10-12; 22q12.1: rs78554043, risk allele frequency = 1.5%, OR = 1.62, 95% CI = 1.39 to 1.89, P = 7.50 × 10-10). At 13q34, the signal is located 5' of the gene IRS2 and 3' of a long noncoding RNA, while at 22q12 the candidate functional allele is a missense variant in the CHEK2 gene. These findings provide further support for the role of ancestry-specific germline variation in contributing to population differences in prostate cancer risk.
Published: 2017

19. Type 2 Diabetes Variants Disrupt Function of SLC16A11 through Two Distinct Mechanisms

Author: Rusu, Victor, Hoch, Eitan, Mercader, Josep M, Tenen, Danielle E, Gymrek, Melissa, Hartigan, Christina R, DeRan, Michael, von Grotthuss, Marcin, Fontanillas, Pierre, Spooner, Alexandra, Guzman, Gaelen, Deik, Amy A, Pierce, Kerry A, Dennis, Courtney, Clish, Clary B, Carr, Steven A, Wagner, Bridget K, Schenone, Monica, Ng, Maggie CY, Chen, Brian H, Consortium, MEDIA, Shriner, Daniel, Li, Jiang, Chen, Wei-Min, Guo, Xiuqing, Liu, Jiankang, Bielinski, Suzette J, Yanek, Lisa R, Nalls, Michael A, Comeau, Mary E, Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J, Jensen, Richard A, Evans, Daniel S, Sun, Yan V, An, Ping, Patel, Sanjay R, Lu, Yingchang, Long, Jirong, Armstrong, Loren L, Wagenknecht, Lynne, Yang, Lingyao, Snively, Beverly M, Palmer, Nicholette D, Mudgal, Poorva, Langefeld, Carl D, Keene, Keith L, Freedman, Barry I, Mychaleckyj, Josyf C, Nayak, Uma, Raffel, Leslie J, Goodarzi, Mark O, Chen, Y-D Ida, Taylor, Herman A, Correa, Adolfo, Sims, Mario, Couper, David, Pankow, James S, Boerwinkle, Eric, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Doumatey, Ayo, Chen, Guanjie, Mathias, Rasika A, Vaidya, Dhananjay, Singleton, Andrew B, Zonderman, Alan B, Igo, Robert P, Sedor, John R, Consortium, the FIND, Kabagambe, Edmond K, Siscovick, David S, McKnight, Barbara, Rice, Kenneth, Liu, Yongmei, Hsueh, Wen-Chi, Zhao, Wei, Bielak, Lawrence F, Kraja, Aldi, Province, Michael A, Bottinger, Erwin P, Gottesman, Omri, Cai, Qiuyin, Zheng, Wei, Blot, William J, Lowe, William L, Pacheco, Jennifer A, Crawford, Dana C, Consortium, the eMERGE, Consortium, the DIAGRAM, Grundberg, Elin, Consortium, the MuTHER, Rich, Stephen S, Hayes, M Geoffrey, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Loos, Ruth JF, Borecki, Ingrid B, Peyser, Patricia A, Cummings, Steven R, and Psaty, Bruce M
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Clinical Research, Diabetes, Digestive Diseases, Liver Disease, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, Basigin, Cell Membrane, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Haplotypes, Hepatocytes, Heterozygote, Histone Code, Humans, Liver, Models, Molecular, Monocarboxylic Acid Transporters, MEDIA Consortium, SIGMA T2D Consortium, MCT11, SLC16A11, disease mechanism, fatty acid metabolism, genetics, lipid metabolism, monocarboxylates, precision medicine, solute carrier, type 2 diabetes, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Abstract: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects Latinos at twice the rate seen in populations of European descent. We recently identified a risk haplotype spanning SLC16A11 that explains ∼20% of the increased T2D prevalence in Mexico. Here, through genetic fine-mapping, we define a set of tightly linked variants likely to contain the causal allele(s). We show that variants on the T2D-associated haplotype have two distinct effects: (1) decreasing SLC16A11 expression in liver and (2) disrupting a key interaction with basigin, thereby reducing cell-surface localization. Both independent mechanisms reduce SLC16A11 function and suggest SLC16A11 is the causal gene at this locus. To gain insight into how SLC16A11 disruption impacts T2D risk, we demonstrate that SLC16A11 is a proton-coupled monocarboxylate transporter and that genetic perturbation of SLC16A11 induces changes in fatty acid and lipid metabolism that are associated with increased T2D risk. Our findings suggest that increasing SLC16A11 function could be therapeutically beneficial for T2D. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
Published: 2017

20. Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium.

Author: Ng, Maggie CY, Graff, Mariaelisa, Lu, Yingchang, Justice, Anne E, Mudgal, Poorva, Liu, Ching-Ti, Young, Kristin, Yanek, Lisa R, Feitosa, Mary F, Wojczynski, Mary K, Rand, Kristin, Brody, Jennifer A, Cade, Brian E, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Duan, Qing, Guo, Xiuqing, Lange, Leslie A, Nalls, Michael A, Okut, Hayrettin, Tajuddin, Salman M, Tayo, Bamidele O, Vedantam, Sailaja, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Chen, Guanjie, Chen, Wei-Min, Chesi, Alessandra, Irvin, Marguerite R, Padhukasahasram, Badri, Smith, Jennifer A, Zheng, Wei, Allison, Matthew A, Ambrosone, Christine B, Bandera, Elisa V, Bartz, Traci M, Berndt, Sonja I, Bernstein, Leslie, Blot, William J, Bottinger, Erwin P, Carpten, John, Chanock, Stephen J, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Conti, David V, Cooper, Richard S, Fornage, Myriam, Freedman, Barry I, Garcia, Melissa, Goodman, Phyllis J, Hsu, Yu-Han H, Hu, Jennifer, Huff, Chad D, Ingles, Sue A, John, Esther M, Kittles, Rick, Klein, Eric, Li, Jin, McKnight, Barbara, Nayak, Uma, Nemesure, Barbara, Ogunniyi, Adesola, Olshan, Andrew, Press, Michael F, Rohde, Rebecca, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Salako, Babatunde, Sanderson, Maureen, Shao, Yaming, Siscovick, David S, Stanford, Janet L, Stevens, Victoria L, Stram, Alex, Strom, Sara S, Vaidya, Dhananjay, Witte, John S, Yao, Jie, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Ziegler, Regina G, Zonderman, Alan B, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Ambs, Stefan, Cushman, Mary, Faul, Jessica D, Hakonarson, Hakon, Levin, Albert M, Nathanson, Katherine L, Ware, Erin B, Weir, David R, Zhao, Wei, Zhi, Degui, Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study (BMDCS) Group, Arnett, Donna K, Grant, Struan FA, Kardia, Sharon LR, Oloapde, Olufunmilayo I, Rao, DC, Rotimi, Charles N, Sale, Michele M, Williams, L Keoki, Zemel, Babette S, Becker, Diane M, and Borecki, Ingrid B
Subjects: Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study (BMDCS) Group, Humans, Obesity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Serine Endopeptidases, Anthropometry, Body Mass Index, Waist-Hip Ratio, Chromosome Mapping, Gene Frequency, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African Continental Ancestry Group, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Male, Adiposity, Genome-Wide Association Study, Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Protein, Genetics, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >300 loci associated with measures of adiposity including body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), but few have been identified through screening of the African ancestry genomes. We performed large scale meta-analyses and replications in up to 52,895 individuals for BMI and up to 23,095 individuals for WHRadjBMI from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC) using 1000 Genomes phase 1 imputed GWAS to improve coverage of both common and low frequency variants in the low linkage disequilibrium African ancestry genomes. In the sex-combined analyses, we identified one novel locus (TCF7L2/HABP2) for WHRadjBMI and eight previously established loci at P < 5×10-8: seven for BMI, and one for WHRadjBMI in African ancestry individuals. An additional novel locus (SPRYD7/DLEU2) was identified for WHRadjBMI when combined with European GWAS. In the sex-stratified analyses, we identified three novel loci for BMI (INTS10/LPL and MLC1 in men, IRX4/IRX2 in women) and four for WHRadjBMI (SSX2IP, CASC8, PDE3B and ZDHHC1/HSD11B2 in women) in individuals of African ancestry or both African and European ancestry. For four of the novel variants, the minor allele frequency was low (
Published: 2017

21. A Meta-analysis of Multiple Myeloma Risk Regions in African and European Ancestry Populations Identifies Putatively Functional Loci

Author: Rand, Kristin A, Song, Chi, Dean, Eric, Serie, Daniel J, Curtin, Karen, Sheng, Xin, Hu, Donglei, Huff, Carol Ann, Bernal-Mizrachi, Leon, Tomasson, Michael H, Ailawadhi, Sikander, Singhal, Seema, Pawlish, Karen, Peters, Edward S, Bock, Cathryn H, Stram, Alex, Van Den Berg, David J, Edlund, Christopher K, Conti, David V, Zimmerman, Todd, Hwang, Amie E, Huntsman, Scott, Graff, John, Nooka, Ajay, Kong, Yinfei, Pregja, Silvana L, Berndt, Sonja I, Blot, William J, Carpten, John, Casey, Graham, Chu, Lisa, Diver, W Ryan, Stevens, Victoria L, Lieber, Michael R, Goodman, Phyllis J, Hennis, Anselm JM, Hsing, Ann W, Mehta, Jayesh, Kittles, Rick A, Kolb, Suzanne, Klein, Eric A, Leske, Cristina, Murphy, Adam B, Nemesure, Barbara, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Strom, Sara S, Vij, Ravi, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Stanford, Janet L, Signorello, Lisa B, Witte, John S, Ambrosone, Christine B, Bhatti, Parveen, John, Esther M, Bernstein, Leslie, Zheng, Wei, Olshan, Andrew F, Hu, Jennifer J, Ziegler, Regina G, Nyante, Sarah J, Bandera, Elisa V, Birmann, Brenda M, Ingles, Sue A, Press, Michael F, Atanackovic, Djordje, Glenn, Martha J, Cannon-Albright, Lisa A, Jones, Brandt, Tricot, Guido, Martin, Thomas G, Kumar, Shaji K, Wolf, Jeffrey L, Deming Halverson, Sandra L, Rothman, Nathaniel, Brooks-Wilson, Angela R, Rajkumar, S Vincent, Kolonel, Laurence N, Chanock, Stephen J, Slager, Susan L, Severson, Richard K, Janakiraman, Nalini, Terebelo, Howard R, Brown, Elizabeth E, De Roos, Anneclaire J, Mohrbacher, Ann F, Colditz, Graham A, Giles, Graham G, Spinelli, John J, Chiu, Brian C, Munshi, Nikhil C, Anderson, Kenneth C, Levy, Joan, Zonder, Jeffrey A, Orlowski, Robert Z, Lonial, Sagar, Camp, Nicola J, Vachon, Celine M, Ziv, Elad, Stram, Daniel O, and Hazelett, Dennis J
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Cancer, Clinical Research, Genetics, Rare Diseases, Hematology, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Adult, Aged, Black People, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Multiple Myeloma, Polycomb Repressive Complex 1, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Repressor Proteins, Transmembrane Activator and CAML Interactor Protein, White People, Medical and Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: BackgroundGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) in European populations have identified genetic risk variants associated with multiple myeloma.MethodsWe performed association testing of common variation in eight regions in 1,318 patients with multiple myeloma and 1,480 controls of European ancestry and 1,305 patients with multiple myeloma and 7,078 controls of African ancestry and conducted a meta-analysis to localize the signals, with epigenetic annotation used to predict functionality.ResultsWe found that variants in 7p15.3, 17p11.2, 22q13.1 were statistically significantly (P < 0.05) associated with multiple myeloma risk in persons of African ancestry and persons of European ancestry, and the variant in 3p22.1 was associated in European ancestry only. In a combined African ancestry-European ancestry meta-analysis, variation in five regions (2p23.3, 3p22.1, 7p15.3, 17p11.2, 22q13.1) was statistically significantly associated with multiple myeloma risk. In 3p22.1, the correlated variants clustered within the gene body of ULK4 Correlated variants in 7p15.3 clustered around an enhancer at the 3' end of the CDCA7L transcription termination site. A missense variant at 17p11.2 (rs34562254, Pro251Leu, OR, 1.32; P = 2.93 × 10-7) in TNFRSF13B encodes a lymphocyte-specific protein in the TNF receptor family that interacts with the NF-κB pathway. SNPs correlated with the index signal in 22q13.1 cluster around the promoter and enhancer regions of CBX7 CONCLUSIONS: We found that reported multiple myeloma susceptibility regions contain risk variants important across populations, supporting the use of multiple racial/ethnic groups with different underlying genetic architecture to enhance the localization and identification of putatively functional alleles.ImpactA subset of reported risk loci for multiple myeloma has consistent effects across populations and is likely to be functional. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 25(12); 1609-18. ©2016 AACR.
Published: 2016

22. Observational and genetic associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and cancer : a UK Biobank and international consortia study

Author: Watts, Eleanor L., Gonzales, Tomas I., Strain, Tessa, Saint-Maurice, Pedro F., Bishop, D. Timothy, Chanock, Stephen J., Johansson, Mattias, Keku, Temitope O., Le Marchand, Loic, Moreno, Victor, Newcomb, Polly A., Newton, Christina C., Pai, Rish K., Purdue, Mark P., Ulrich, Cornelia M., Smith-Byrne, Karl, van Guelpen, Bethany, Eeles, Rosalind A., Haiman, Christopher A., Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Schumacher, Fredrick R., Benlloch, Sara, Olama, Ali Amin Al, Muir, Kenneth R., Berndt, Sonja I., Conti, David V., Wiklund, Fredrik, Wang, Ying, Tangen, Catherine M., Batra, Jyotsna, Clements, Judith A., Grönberg, Henrik, Pashayan, Nora, Schleutker, Johanna, Albanes, Demetrius, Weinstein, Stephanie J., Wolk, Alicja, West, Catharine M. L., Mucci, Lorelei A., Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, Koutros, Stella, Sørensen, Karina Dalsgaard, Grindedal, Eli Marie, Neal, David E., Hamdy, Freddie C., Donovan, Jenny L., Travis, Ruth C., Hamilton, Robert J., Ingles, Sue Ann, Rosenstein, Barry S., Lu, Yong-Jie, Giles, Graham G., MacInnis, Robert J., Kibel, Adam S., Vega, Ana, Kogevinas, Manolis, Penney, Kathryn L., Park, Jong Y., Stanford, Janet L., Cybulski, Cezary, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Nielsen, Sune F., Brenner, Hermann, Maier, Christiane, Kim, Jeri, John, Esther M., Teixeira, Manuel R., Neuhausen, Susan L., De Ruyck, Kim, Razack, Azad, Newcomb, Lisa F., Lessel, Davor, Kaneva, Radka, Usmani, Nawaid, Claessens, Frank, Townsend, Paul A., Castelao, Jose Esteban, Roobol, Monique J., Menegaux, Florence, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Pandha, Hardev, Thibodeau, Stephen N., Hunter, David J., Kraft, Peter, Blot, William J., Riboli, Elio, Day, Felix R., Wijndaele, Katrien, Wareham, Nicholas J., Matthews, Charles E., Moore, Steven C., Brage, Soren, Watts, Eleanor L., Gonzales, Tomas I., Strain, Tessa, Saint-Maurice, Pedro F., Bishop, D. Timothy, Chanock, Stephen J., Johansson, Mattias, Keku, Temitope O., Le Marchand, Loic, Moreno, Victor, Newcomb, Polly A., Newton, Christina C., Pai, Rish K., Purdue, Mark P., Ulrich, Cornelia M., Smith-Byrne, Karl, van Guelpen, Bethany, Eeles, Rosalind A., Haiman, Christopher A., Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Schumacher, Fredrick R., Benlloch, Sara, Olama, Ali Amin Al, Muir, Kenneth R., Berndt, Sonja I., Conti, David V., Wiklund, Fredrik, Wang, Ying, Tangen, Catherine M., Batra, Jyotsna, Clements, Judith A., Grönberg, Henrik, Pashayan, Nora, Schleutker, Johanna, Albanes, Demetrius, Weinstein, Stephanie J., Wolk, Alicja, West, Catharine M. L., Mucci, Lorelei A., Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, Koutros, Stella, Sørensen, Karina Dalsgaard, Grindedal, Eli Marie, Neal, David E., Hamdy, Freddie C., Donovan, Jenny L., Travis, Ruth C., Hamilton, Robert J., Ingles, Sue Ann, Rosenstein, Barry S., Lu, Yong-Jie, Giles, Graham G., MacInnis, Robert J., Kibel, Adam S., Vega, Ana, Kogevinas, Manolis, Penney, Kathryn L., Park, Jong Y., Stanford, Janet L., Cybulski, Cezary, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Nielsen, Sune F., Brenner, Hermann, Maier, Christiane, Kim, Jeri, John, Esther M., Teixeira, Manuel R., Neuhausen, Susan L., De Ruyck, Kim, Razack, Azad, Newcomb, Lisa F., Lessel, Davor, Kaneva, Radka, Usmani, Nawaid, Claessens, Frank, Townsend, Paul A., Castelao, Jose Esteban, Roobol, Monique J., Menegaux, Florence, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Pandha, Hardev, Thibodeau, Stephen N., Hunter, David J., Kraft, Peter, Blot, William J., Riboli, Elio, Day, Felix R., Wijndaele, Katrien, Wareham, Nicholas J., Matthews, Charles E., Moore, Steven C., and Brage, Soren
Abstract: Background: The association of fitness with cancer risk is not clear. Methods: We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for risk of lung, colorectal, endometrial, breast, and prostate cancer in a subset of UK Biobank participants who completed a submaximal fitness test in 2009-12 (N = 72,572). We also investigated relationships using two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR), odds ratios (ORs) were estimated using the inverse-variance weighted method. Results: After a median of 11 years of follow-up, 4290 cancers of interest were diagnosed. A 3.5 ml O2⋅min−1⋅kg−1 total-body mass increase in fitness (equivalent to 1 metabolic equivalent of task (MET), approximately 0.5 standard deviation (SD)) was associated with lower risks of endometrial (HR = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.73–0.89), colorectal (0.94, 0.90–0.99), and breast cancer (0.96, 0.92–0.99). In MR analyses, a 0.5 SD increase in genetically predicted O2⋅min−1⋅kg−1 fat-free mass was associated with a lower risk of breast cancer (OR = 0.92, 95% CI: 0.86–0.98). After adjusting for adiposity, both the observational and genetic associations were attenuated. Discussion: Higher fitness levels may reduce risks of endometrial, colorectal, and breast cancer, though relationships with adiposity are complex and may mediate these relationships. Increasing fitness, including via changes in body composition, may be an effective strategy for cancer prevention.
Published: 2024
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23. Observational and genetic associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and cancer:a UK Biobank and international consortia study

Author: Watts, Eleanor L., Gonzales, Tomas I., Strain, Tessa, Saint-Maurice, Pedro F., Bishop, D. Timothy, Chanock, Stephen J., Johansson, Mattias, Keku, Temitope O., Le Marchand, Loic, Moreno, Victor, Newcomb, Polly A., Newton, Christina C., Pai, Rish K., Purdue, Mark P., Ulrich, Cornelia M., Smith-Byrne, Karl, Van Guelpen, Bethany, Eeles, Rosalind A., Haiman, Christopher A., Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Schumacher, Fredrick R., Benlloch, Sara, Olama, Ali Amin Al, Muir, Kenneth R., Berndt, Sonja I., Conti, David V., Wiklund, Fredrik, Wang, Ying, Tangen, Catherine M., Batra, Jyotsna, Clements, Judith A., Grönberg, Henrik, Pashayan, Nora, Schleutker, Johanna, Albanes, Demetrius, Weinstein, Stephanie J., Wolk, Alicja, West, Catharine M.L., Mucci, Lorelei A., Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, Koutros, Stella, Sørensen, Karina Dalsgaard, Grindedal, Eli Marie, Neal, David E., Hamdy, Freddie C., Donovan, Jenny L., Travis, Ruth C., Hamilton, Robert J., Ingles, Sue Ann, Rosenstein, Barry S., Lu, Yong Jie, Giles, Graham G., MacInnis, Robert J., Kibel, Adam S., Vega, Ana, Kogevinas, Manolis, Penney, Kathryn L., Park, Jong Y., Stanford, Janet L., Cybulski, Cezary, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Nielsen, Sune F., Brenner, Hermann, Maier, Christiane, Kim, Jeri, John, Esther M., Teixeira, Manuel R., Neuhausen, Susan L., De Ruyck, Kim, Razack, Azad, Newcomb, Lisa F., Lessel, Davor, Kaneva, Radka, Usmani, Nawaid, Claessens, Frank, Townsend, Paul A., Castelao, Jose Esteban, Roobol, Monique J., Menegaux, Florence, Khaw, Kay Tee, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Pandha, Hardev, Thibodeau, Stephen N., Hunter, David J., Kraft, Peter, Blot, William J., Riboli, Elio, Day, Felix R., Wijndaele, Katrien, Wareham, Nicholas J., Matthews, Charles E., Moore, Steven C., Brage, Soren, Watts, Eleanor L., Gonzales, Tomas I., Strain, Tessa, Saint-Maurice, Pedro F., Bishop, D. Timothy, Chanock, Stephen J., Johansson, Mattias, Keku, Temitope O., Le Marchand, Loic, Moreno, Victor, Newcomb, Polly A., Newton, Christina C., Pai, Rish K., Purdue, Mark P., Ulrich, Cornelia M., Smith-Byrne, Karl, Van Guelpen, Bethany, Eeles, Rosalind A., Haiman, Christopher A., Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Schumacher, Fredrick R., Benlloch, Sara, Olama, Ali Amin Al, Muir, Kenneth R., Berndt, Sonja I., Conti, David V., Wiklund, Fredrik, Wang, Ying, Tangen, Catherine M., Batra, Jyotsna, Clements, Judith A., Grönberg, Henrik, Pashayan, Nora, Schleutker, Johanna, Albanes, Demetrius, Weinstein, Stephanie J., Wolk, Alicja, West, Catharine M.L., Mucci, Lorelei A., Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, Koutros, Stella, Sørensen, Karina Dalsgaard, Grindedal, Eli Marie, Neal, David E., Hamdy, Freddie C., Donovan, Jenny L., Travis, Ruth C., Hamilton, Robert J., Ingles, Sue Ann, Rosenstein, Barry S., Lu, Yong Jie, Giles, Graham G., MacInnis, Robert J., Kibel, Adam S., Vega, Ana, Kogevinas, Manolis, Penney, Kathryn L., Park, Jong Y., Stanford, Janet L., Cybulski, Cezary, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Nielsen, Sune F., Brenner, Hermann, Maier, Christiane, Kim, Jeri, John, Esther M., Teixeira, Manuel R., Neuhausen, Susan L., De Ruyck, Kim, Razack, Azad, Newcomb, Lisa F., Lessel, Davor, Kaneva, Radka, Usmani, Nawaid, Claessens, Frank, Townsend, Paul A., Castelao, Jose Esteban, Roobol, Monique J., Menegaux, Florence, Khaw, Kay Tee, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Pandha, Hardev, Thibodeau, Stephen N., Hunter, David J., Kraft, Peter, Blot, William J., Riboli, Elio, Day, Felix R., Wijndaele, Katrien, Wareham, Nicholas J., Matthews, Charles E., Moore, Steven C., and Brage, Soren
Abstract: Background: The association of fitness with cancer risk is not clear. Methods: We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for risk of lung, colorectal, endometrial, breast, and prostate cancer in a subset of UK Biobank participants who completed a submaximal fitness test in 2009-12 (N = 72,572). We also investigated relationships using two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR), odds ratios (ORs) were estimated using the inverse-variance weighted method.Results: After a median of 11 years of follow-up, 4290 cancers of interest were diagnosed. A 3.5 ml O2⋅min−1⋅kg−1 total-body mass increase in fitness (equivalent to 1 metabolic equivalent of task (MET), approximately 0.5 standard deviation (SD)) was associated with lower risks of endometrial (HR = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.73–0.89), colorectal (0.94, 0.90–0.99), and breast cancer (0.96, 0.92–0.99). In MR analyses, a 0.5 SD increase in genetically predicted O2⋅min−1⋅kg−1 fat-free mass was associated with a lower risk of breast cancer (OR = 0.92, 95% CI: 0.86–0.98). After adjusting for adiposity, both the observational and genetic associations were attenuated. Discussion: Higher fitness levels may reduce risks of endometrial, colorectal, and breast cancer, though relationships with adiposity are complex and may mediate these relationships. Increasing fitness, including via changes in body composition, may be an effective strategy for cancer prevention.
Published: 2024

24. Race and Sex Differences in Modifiable Risk Factors and Incident Heart Failure

Author: Kubicki, Danielle M., Xu, Meng, Akwo, Elvis A., Dixon, Debra, Muñoz, Daniel, Blot, William J., Wang, Thomas J., Lipworth, Loren, and Gupta, Deepak K.
Published: 2020
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25. Association between circulating inflammatory markers and adult cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis

Author: Yarmolinsky, James, primary, Robinson, Jamie W., additional, Mariosa, Daniela, additional, Karhunen, Ville, additional, Huang, Jian, additional, Dimou, Niki, additional, Murphy, Neil, additional, Burrows, Kimberley, additional, Bouras, Emmanouil, additional, Smith-Byrne, Karl, additional, Lewis, Sarah J., additional, Galesloot, Tessel E., additional, Kiemeney, Lambertus A., additional, Vermeulen, Sita, additional, Martin, Paul, additional, Albanes, Demetrius, additional, Hou, Lifang, additional, Newcomb, Polly A., additional, White, Emily, additional, Wolk, Alicja, additional, Wu, Anna H., additional, Le Marchand, Loïc, additional, Phipps, Amanda I., additional, Buchanan, Daniel D., additional, Zhao, Sizheng Steven, additional, Gill, Dipender, additional, Chanock, Stephen J., additional, Purdue, Mark P., additional, Davey Smith, George, additional, Brennan, Paul, additional, Herzig, Karl-Heinz, additional, Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta, additional, Amos, Chris I., additional, Hung, Rayjean J., additional, Dehghan, Abbas, additional, Johansson, Mattias, additional, Gunter, Marc J., additional, Tsilidis, Kostas K., additional, Martin, Richard M., additional, Landi, Maria Teresa, additional, Stevens, Victoria, additional, Wang, Ying, additional, Albanes, Demetrios, additional, Caporaso, Neil, additional, Amos, Christopher I., additional, Shete, Sanjay, additional, Bickeböller, Heike, additional, Risch, Angela, additional, Houlston, Richard, additional, Lam, Stephen, additional, Tardon, Adonina, additional, Chen, Chu, additional, Bojesen, Stig E., additional, Wichmann, H-Erich, additional, Christiani, David, additional, Rennert, Gadi, additional, Arnold, Susanne, additional, Field, John K., additional, Le Marchand, Loic, additional, Melander, Olle, additional, Brunnström, Hans, additional, Liu, Geoffrey, additional, Andrew, Angeline, additional, Shen, Hongbing, additional, Zienolddiny, Shan, additional, Grankvist, Kjell, additional, Johansson, Mikael, additional, Teare, M. Dawn, additional, Hong, Yun-Chul, additional, Yuan, Jian-Min, additional, Lazarus, Philip, additional, Schabath, Matthew B., additional, Aldrich, Melinda C., additional, Eeles, Rosalind A., additional, Haiman, Christopher A., additional, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, additional, Schumacher, Fredrick R., additional, Benlloch, Sara, additional, Al Olama, Ali Amin, additional, Muir, Kenneth R., additional, Berndt, Sonja I., additional, Conti, David V., additional, Wiklund, Fredrik, additional, Chanock, Stephen, additional, Tangen, Catherine M., additional, Batra, Jyotsna, additional, Clements, Judith A., additional, Grönberg, Henrik, additional, Pashayan, Nora, additional, Schleutker, Johanna, additional, Weinstein, Stephanie J., additional, West, Catharine M.L., additional, Mucci, Lorelei A., additional, Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, additional, Koutros, Stella, additional, Sørensen, Karina Dalsgaard, additional, Grindedal, Eli Marie, additional, Neal, David E., additional, Hamdy, Freddie C., additional, Donovan, Jenny L., additional, Travis, Ruth C., additional, Hamilton, Robert J., additional, Ingles, Sue Ann, additional, Rosenstein, Barry S., additional, Lu, Yong-Jie, additional, Giles, Graham G., additional, MacInnis, Robert J., additional, Kibel, Adam S., additional, Vega, Ana, additional, Kogevinas, Manolis, additional, Penney, Kathryn L., additional, Park, Jong Y., additional, Stanfrod, Janet L., additional, Cybulski, Cezary, additional, Nordestgaard, Børge G., additional, Nielsen, Sune F., additional, Brenner, Hermann, additional, Maier, Christiane, additional, Logothetis, Christopher J., additional, John, Esther M., additional, Teixeira, Manuel R., additional, Neuhausen, Susan L., additional, De Ruyck, Kim, additional, Razack, Azad, additional, Newcomb, Lisa F., additional, Lessel, Davor, additional, Kaneva, Radka, additional, Usmani, Nawaid, additional, Claessens, Frank, additional, Townsend, Paul A., additional, Castelao, Jose Esteban, additional, Roobol, Monique J., additional, Menegaux, Florence, additional, Khaw, Kay-Tee, additional, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, additional, Pandha, Hardev, additional, Thibodeau, Stephen N., additional, Hunter, David J., additional, Kraft, Peter, additional, Blot, William J., additional, and Riboli, Elio, additional
Published: 2024
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26. Genome-wide association study confirms lung cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 5p15 and 15q25 in an African-American population

Author: Zanetti, Krista A, Wang, Zhaoming, Aldrich, Melinda, Amos, Christopher I, Blot, William J, Bowman, Elise D, Burdette, Laurie, Cai, Qiuyin, Caporaso, Neil, Chung, Charles C, Gillanders, Elizabeth M, Haiman, Christopher A, Hansen, Helen M, Henderson, Brian E, Kolonel, Laurence N, Le Marchand, Loic, Li, Shengchao, McNeill, Lorna Haughton, Ryan, Bríd M, Schwartz, Ann G, Sison, Jennette D, Spitz, Margaret R, Tucker, Margaret, Wenzlaff, Angela S, Wiencke, John K, Wilkens, Lynne, Wrensch, Margaret R, Wu, Xifeng, Zheng, Wei, Zhou, Weiyin, Christiani, David, Palmer, Julie R, Penning, Trevor M, Rieber, Alyssa G, Rosenberg, Lynn, Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward A, Su, Li, Vachani, Anil, Wei, Yongyue, Whitehead, Alexander S, Chanock, Stephen J, and Harris, Curtis C
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Cancer, Lung, Women's Health, Human Genome, Clinical Research, Prevention, Genetics, Lung Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Respiratory, Black or African American, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Population Surveillance, Quantitative Trait Loci, Genome-wide association study, Lung neoplasms, Smoking, African Americans, Telomerase, Receptors, Cholinergic, Clinical Sciences, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Clinical sciences, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract: ObjectivesGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) of lung cancer have identified regions of common genetic variation with lung cancer risk in Europeans who smoke and never-smoking Asian women. This study aimed to conduct a GWAS in African Americans, who have higher rates of lung cancer despite smoking fewer cigarettes per day when compared with Caucasians. This population provides a different genetic architecture based on underlying African ancestry allowing the identification of new regions and exploration of known regions for finer mapping.Materials and methodsWe genotyped 1,024,001 SNPs in 1737 cases and 3602 controls in stage 1, followed by a replication phase of 20 SNPs (p
Published: 2016

27. Prostate Cancer Susceptibility in Men of African Ancestry at 8q24

Author: Han, Ying, Rand, Kristin A, Hazelett, Dennis J, Ingles, Sue A, Kittles, Rick A, Strom, Sara S, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Nemesure, Barbara, Isaacs, William B, Stanford, Janet L, Zheng, Wei, Schumacher, Fredrick R, Berndt, Sonja I, Wang, Zhaoming, Xu, Jianfeng, Rohland, Nadin, Reich, David, Tandon, Arti, Pasaniuc, Bogdan, Allen, Alex, Quinque, Dominique, Mallick, Swapan, Notani, Dimple, Rosenfeld, Michael G, Jayani, Ranveer Singh, Kolb, Suzanne, Gapstur, Susan M, Stevens, Victoria L, Pettaway, Curtis A, Yeboah, Edward D, Tettey, Yao, Biritwum, Richard B, Adjei, Andrew A, Tay, Evelyn, Truelove, Ann, Niwa, Shelley, Chokkalingam, Anand P, John, Esther M, Murphy, Adam B, Signorello, Lisa B, Carpten, John, Leske, M Cristina, Wu, Suh-Yuh, Hennis, Anslem JM, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Hsing, Ann W, Chu, Lisa, Goodman, Phyllis J, Klein, Eric A, Zheng, S Lilly, Witte, John S, Casey, Graham, Lubwama, Alex, Pooler, Loreall C, Sheng, Xin, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Cook, Michael B, Chanock, Stephen J, Stram, Daniel O, Watya, Stephen, Blot, William J, Conti, David V, Henderson, Brian E, and Haiman, Christopher A
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Clinical Research, Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Aging, Urologic Diseases, Human Genome, Prevention, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Black or African American, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, RNA, Long Noncoding, United States, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract: The 8q24 region harbors multiple risk variants for distinct cancers, including >8 for prostate cancer. In this study, we conducted fine mapping of the 8q24 risk region (127.8-128.8Mb) in search of novel associations with common and rare variation in 4853 prostate cancer case patients and 4678 control subjects of African ancestry. All statistical tests were two-sided. We identified three independent associations at P values of less than 5.00×10(-8), all of which were replicated in studies from Ghana and Uganda (combined sample = 5869 case patients, 5615 control subjects; rs114798100: risk allele frequency [RAF] = 0.04, per-allele odds ratio [OR] = 2.31, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.04 to 2.61, P = 2.38×10(-40); rs72725879: RAF = 0.33, OR = 1.37, 95% CI = 1.30 to 1.45, P = 3.04×10(-27); and rs111906932: RAF = 0.03, OR = 1.79, 95% CI = 1.53 to 2.08, P = 1.39×10(-13)). Risk variants rs114798100 and rs111906923 are only found in men of African ancestry, with rs111906923 representing a novel association signal. The three variants are located within or near a number of prostate cancer-associated long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), including PRNCR1, PCAT1, and PCAT2. These findings highlight ancestry-specific risk variation and implicate prostate-specific lncRNAs at the 8q24 prostate cancer susceptibility region.
Published: 2016

28. Identification of independent association signals and putative functional variants for breast cancer risk through fine-scale mapping of the 12p11 locus

Author: Zeng, Chenjie, Guo, Xingyi, Long, Jirong, Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B, Droit, Arnaud, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Ghoussaini, Maya, Kar, Siddhartha, Freeman, Adam, Hopper, John L, Milne, Roger L, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Agata, Simona, Ahmed, Shahana, AittomÃ¤ki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia N, Arason, Adalgeir, Arndt, Volker, Arun, Banu K, Arver, Brita, Bacot, Francois, Barrowdale, Daniel, Baynes, Caroline, Beeghly-Fadiel, Alicia, Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Blomqvist, Carl, Blot, William J, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Bonanni, Bernardo, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Brand, Judith S, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brennan, Paul, Brenner, Hermann, Broeks, Annegien, BrÃ¼ning, Thomas, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S, Cai, Qiuyin, Caldes, Trinidad, Campbell, Ian, Carpenter, Jane, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Choi, Ji-Yeob, Claes, Kathleen B. M, Clarke, Christine, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, de la Hoya, Miguel, De Leeneer, Kim, Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Domchek, Susan M, Doody, Michele, Dorfling, Cecilia M, DÃ¶rk, Thilo, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dumont, Martine, Dwek, Miriam, Dworniczak, Bernd, Egan, Kathleen, Eilber, Ursula, Einbeigi, Zakaria, Ejlertsen, Bent, Ellis, Steve, Frost, Debra, Lalloo, Fiona, Fasching, Peter A, Figueroa, Jonine, Flyger, Henrik, Friedlander, Michael, Friedman, Eitan, Gambino, Gaetana, Gao, Yu-Tang, Garber, Judy, GarcÃa-Closas, Montserrat, Gehrig, Andrea, Damiola, Francesca, Lesueur, Fabienne, Mazoyer, Sylvie, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Giles, Graham G, Godwin, Andrew K, Goldgar, David E, GonzÃ¡lez-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H, GuÃ©nel, Pascal, Haeberle, Lothar, Haiman, Christopher A, Hallberg, Emily, Hamann, Ute, and Hansen, Thomas V. O
Published: 2016

29. Female chromosome X mosaicism is age-related and preferentially affects the inactivated X chromosome

Author: Machiela, Mitchell J, Zhou, Weiyin, Karlins, Eric, Sampson, Joshua N, Freedman, Neal D, Yang, Qi, Hicks, Belynda, Dagnall, Casey, Hautman, Christopher, Jacobs, Kevin B, Abnet, Christian C, Aldrich, Melinda C, Amos, Christopher, Amundadottir, Laufey T, Arslan, Alan A, Beane-Freeman, Laura E, Berndt, Sonja I, Black, Amanda, Blot, William J, Bock, Cathryn H, Bracci, Paige M, Brinton, Louise A, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H Bas, Burdett, Laurie, Buring, Julie E, Butler, Mary A, Canzian, Federico, Carreon, Tania, Chaffee, Kari G, Chang, I-Shou, Chatterjee, Nilanjan, Chen, Chu, Chen, Constance, Chen, Kexin, Chung, Charles C, Cook, Linda S, Bou, Marta Crous, Cullen, Michael, Davis, Faith G, De Vivo, Immaculata, Ding, Ti, Doherty, Jennifer, Duell, Eric J, Epstein, Caroline G, Fan, Jin-Hu, Figueroa, Jonine D, Fraumeni, Joseph F, Friedenreich, Christine M, Fuchs, Charles S, Gallinger, Steven, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gapstur, Susan M, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Gaudet, Mia M, Gaziano, J Michael, Giles, Graham G, Gillanders, Elizabeth M, Giovannucci, Edward L, Goldin, Lynn, Goldstein, Alisa M, Haiman, Christopher A, Hallmans, Goran, Hankinson, Susan E, Harris, Curtis C, Henriksson, Roger, Holly, Elizabeth A, Hong, Yun-Chul, Hoover, Robert N, Hsiung, Chao A, Hu, Nan, Hu, Wei, Hunter, David J, Hutchinson, Amy, Jenab, Mazda, Johansen, Christoffer, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kim, Hee Nam, Kim, Yeul Hong, Kim, Young Tae, Klein, Alison P, Klein, Robert, Koh, Woon-Puay, Kolonel, Laurence N, Kooperberg, Charles, Kraft, Peter, Krogh, Vittorio, Kurtz, Robert C, LaCroix, Andrea, Lan, Qing, Landi, Maria Teresa, Le Marchand, Loic, Li, Donghui, Liang, Xiaolin, Liao, Linda M, Lin, Dongxin, Liu, Jianjun, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Lingeng, Magliocco, Anthony M, and Malats, Nuria
Published: 2016

30. No evidence that protein truncating variants in BRIP1 are associated with breast cancer risk: implications for gene panel testing.

Author: Easton, Douglas F, Lesueur, Fabienne, Decker, Brennan, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Li, Jun, Allen, Jamie, Luccarini, Craig, Pooley, Karen A, Shah, Mitul, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Ahmad, Jamil, Thompson, Ella R, Damiola, Francesca, Pertesi, Maroulio, Voegele, Catherine, Mebirouk, Noura, Robinot, Nivonirina, Durand, Geoffroy, Forey, Nathalie, Luben, Robert N, Ahmed, Shahana, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Baynes, Caroline, Beckman, Matthias W, Benitez, Javier, Van Den Berg, David, Blot, William J, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Brenner, Hermann, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chia, Kee Seng, Choi, Ji-Yeob, Conroy, Don M, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Devilee, Peter, Eriksson, Mikael, Fasching, Peter A, Figueroa, Jonine, Flyger, Henrik, Fostira, Florentia, García-Closas, Montserrat, Giles, Graham G, Glendon, Gord, González-Neira, Anna, Guénel, Pascal, Haiman, Christopher A, Hall, Per, Hart, Steven N, Hartman, Mikael, Hooning, Maartje J, Hsiung, Chia-Ni, Ito, Hidemi, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul A, John, Esther M, Johnson, Nichola, Jones, Michael, Kabisch, Maria, Kang, Daehee, kConFab Investigators, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Kristensen, Vessela, Lambrechts, Diether, Li, Na, Lifepool Investigators, Lindblom, Annika, Long, Jirong, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Lubinski, Jan, Mannermaa, Arto, Manoukian, Siranoush, Margolin, Sara, Matsuo, Keitaro, Meindl, Alfons, Mitchell, Gillian, Muir, Kenneth, NBCS Investigators, Nevelsteen, Ines, van den Ouweland, Ans, Peterlongo, Paolo, Phuah, Sze Yee, Pylkäs, Katri, Rowley, Simone M, Sangrajrang, Suleeporn, Schmutzler, Rita K, Shen, Chen-Yang, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Southey, Melissa C, Surowy, Harald, Swerdlow, Anthony, and Teo, Soo H
Subjects: Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, kConFab Investigators, Lifepool Investigators, NBCS Investigators, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, RNA Helicases, DNA-Binding Proteins, Risk, Cohort Studies, Mutation, Adult, Aged, Middle Aged, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group Proteins, Genetic Association Studies, Cancer: breast, Genetics & Heredity, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences
Abstract: BACKGROUND:BRCA1 interacting protein C-terminal helicase 1 (BRIP1) is one of the Fanconi Anaemia Complementation (FANC) group family of DNA repair proteins. Biallelic mutations in BRIP1 are responsible for FANC group J, and previous studies have also suggested that rare protein truncating variants in BRIP1 are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. These studies have led to inclusion of BRIP1 on targeted sequencing panels for breast cancer risk prediction. METHODS:We evaluated a truncating variant, p.Arg798Ter (rs137852986), and 10 missense variants of BRIP1, in 48 144 cases and 43 607 controls of European origin, drawn from 41 studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). Additionally, we sequenced the coding regions of BRIP1 in 13 213 cases and 5242 controls from the UK, 1313 cases and 1123 controls from three population-based studies as part of the Breast Cancer Family Registry, and 1853 familial cases and 2001 controls from Australia. RESULTS:The rare truncating allele of rs137852986 was observed in 23 cases and 18 controls in Europeans in BCAC (OR 1.09, 95% CI 0.58 to 2.03, p=0.79). Truncating variants were found in the sequencing studies in 34 cases (0.21%) and 19 controls (0.23%) (combined OR 0.90, 95% CI 0.48 to 1.70, p=0.75). CONCLUSIONS:These results suggest that truncating variants in BRIP1, and in particular p.Arg798Ter, are not associated with a substantial increase in breast cancer risk. Such observations have important implications for the reporting of results from breast cancer screening panels.
Published: 2016

31. Atlas of prostate cancer heritability in European and African-American men pinpoints tissue-specific regulation.

Author: Gusev, Alexander, Shi, Huwenbo, Kichaev, Gleb, Pomerantz, Mark, Li, Fugen, Long, Henry W, Ingles, Sue A, Kittles, Rick A, Strom, Sara S, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Nemesure, Barbara, Isaacs, William B, Zheng, Wei, Pettaway, Curtis A, Yeboah, Edward D, Tettey, Yao, Biritwum, Richard B, Adjei, Andrew A, Tay, Evelyn, Truelove, Ann, Niwa, Shelley, Chokkalingam, Anand P, John, Esther M, Murphy, Adam B, Signorello, Lisa B, Carpten, John, Leske, M Cristina, Wu, Suh-Yuh, Hennis, Anslem JM, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Hsing, Ann W, Chu, Lisa, Goodman, Phyllis J, Klein, Eric A, Witte, John S, Casey, Graham, Kaggwa, Sam, Cook, Michael B, Stram, Daniel O, Blot, William J, Eeles, Rosalind A, Easton, Douglas, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Al Olama, Ali Amin, Benlloch, Sara, Muir, Kenneth, Giles, Graham G, Southey, Melissa C, Fitzgerald, Liesel M, Gronberg, Henrik, Wiklund, Fredrik, Aly, Markus, Henderson, Brian E, Schleutker, Johanna, Wahlfors, Tiina, Tammela, Teuvo LJ, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Key, Tim J, Travis, Ruth C, Neal, David E, Donovan, Jenny L, Hamdy, Freddie C, Pharoah, Paul, Pashayan, Nora, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Stanford, Janet L, Thibodeau, Stephen N, McDonnell, Shannon K, Schaid, Daniel J, Maier, Christiane, Vogel, Walther, Luedeke, Manuel, Herkommer, Kathleen, Kibel, Adam S, Cybulski, Cezary, Wokolorczyk, Dominika, Kluzniak, Wojciech, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Teerlink, Craig, Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida K, Arndt, Volker, Park, Jong Y, Sellers, Thomas A, Lin, Hui-Yi, Slavov, Chavdar, Kaneva, Radka, Mitev, Vanio, Batra, Jyotsna, Spurdle, Amanda, Clements, Judith A, Teixeira, Manuel R, Pandha, Hardev, Michael, Agnieszka, Paulo, Paula, Maia, Sofia, Kierzek, Andrzej, PRACTICAL consortium, Conti, David V, and Albanes, Demetrius
Subjects: PRACTICAL consortium, Cell Line, Tumor, Humans, Prostatic Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Histones, Epigenesis, Genetic, Acetylation, Inheritance Patterns, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African Americans, European Continental Ancestry Group, Male, Atlases as Topic, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Cell Line, Tumor, Epigenesis, Genetic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Although genome-wide association studies have identified over 100 risk loci that explain ∼33% of familial risk for prostate cancer (PrCa), their functional effects on risk remain largely unknown. Here we use genotype data from 59,089 men of European and African American ancestries combined with cell-type-specific epigenetic data to build a genomic atlas of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) heritability in PrCa. We find significant differences in heritability between variants in prostate-relevant epigenetic marks defined in normal versus tumour tissue as well as between tissue and cell lines. The majority of SNP heritability lies in regions marked by H3k27 acetylation in prostate adenoc7arcinoma cell line (LNCaP) or by DNaseI hypersensitive sites in cancer cell lines. We find a high degree of similarity between European and African American ancestries suggesting a similar genetic architecture from common variation underlying PrCa risk. Our findings showcase the power of integrating functional annotation with genetic data to understand the genetic basis of PrCa.
Published: 2016

32. Recommendations for Cancer Epidemiologic Research in Understudied Populations and Implications for Future Needs

Author: Martin, Damali N, Lam, Tram Kim, Brignole, Katy, Ashing, Kimlin T, Blot, William J, Burhansstipanov, Linda, Chen, Jarvis T, Dignan, Mark, Gomez, Scarlett Lin, Martinez, Maria Elena, Matthews, Alicia, Palmer, Julie R, Perez-Stable, Eliseo J, Schootman, Mario, Vilchis, Hugo, Vu, Alexander, and Srinivasan, Shobha
Subjects: Prevention, Cancer, Good Health and Well Being, Epidemiologic Studies, Humans, Minority Groups, Neoplasms, Medical and Health Sciences, Epidemiology
Abstract: Medically underserved populations in the United States continue to experience higher cancer burdens of incidence, mortality, and other cancer-related outcomes. It is imperative to understand how health inequities experienced by diverse population groups may contribute to our increasing unequal cancer burdens and disparate outcomes. The National Cancer Institute convened a diverse group of scientists to discuss research challenges and opportunities for cancer epidemiology in medically underserved and understudied populations. This report summarizes salient issues and discusses five recommendations from the group, including the next steps required to better examine and address cancer burden in the United States among our rapidly increasing diverse and understudied populations. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 25(4); 573-80. ©2016 AACR SEE ALL ARTICLES IN THIS CEBP FOCUS SECTION, "MULTILEVEL APPROACHES TO ADDRESSING CANCER HEALTH DISPARITIES".
Published: 2016

33. Genome-wide scan of 29,141 African Americans finds no evidence of selection since admixture

Author: Bhatia, Gaurav, Tandon, Arti, Aldrich, Melinda C., Ambrosone, Christine B., Amos, Christopher, Bandera, Elisa V., Berndt, Sonja I., Bernstein, Leslie, Blot, William J., Bock, Cathryn H., Caporaso, Neil, Casey, Graham, Deming, Sandra L., Diver, W. Ryan, Gapstur, Susan M., Gillanders, Elizabeth M., Harris, Curtis C., Henderson, Brian E., Ingles, Sue A., Isaacs, William, John, Esther M., Kittles, Rick A., Larkin, Emma, McNeill, Lorna H., Millikan, Robert C., Murphy, Adam, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Nyante, Sarah, Press, Michael F., Rodriguez-Gil, Jorge L., Rybicki, Benjamin A., Schwartz, Ann G., Signorello, Lisa B., Spitz, Margaret, Strom, Sara S., Tucker, Margaret A., Wiencke, John K., Witte, John S., Wu, Xifeng, Yamamura, Yuko, Zanetti, Krista A., Zheng, Wei, Ziegler, Regina G., Chanock, Stephen J., Haiman, Christopher A., Reich, David, and Price, Alkes L.
Subjects: Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Abstract: We scanned through the genomes of 29,141 African Americans, searching for loci where the average proportion of African ancestry deviates significantly from the genome-wide average. We failed to find any genome-wide significant deviations, and conclude that any selection in African Americans since admixture is sufficiently weak that it falls below the threshold of our power to detect it using a large sample size. These results stand in contrast to the findings of a recent study of selection in African Americans. That study, which had 15 times fewer samples, reported six loci with significant deviations. We show that the discrepancy is likely due to insufficient correction for multiple hypothesis testing in the previous study. The same study reported 14 loci that showed greater population differentiation between African Americans and Nigerian Yoruba than would be expected in the absence of natural selection. Four such loci were previously shown to be genome-wide significant and likely to be affected by selection, but we show that most of the 10 additional loci are likely to be false positives. Additionally, the most parsimonious explanation for the loci that have significant evidence of unusual differentiation in frequency between Nigerians and Africans Americans is selection in Africa prior to their forced migration to the Americas.
Published: 2013

34. Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults

Author: Zahed, Hana, Johansson, Mattias, Ueland, Per M., Midttun, Øivind, Milne, Roger L., Giles, Graham G., Manjer, Jonas, Sandsveden, Malte, Langhammer, Arnulf, Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen, Grankvist, Kjell, Johansson, Mikael, Freedman, Neal D., Huang, Wen-Yi, Chen, Chu, Prentice, Ross, Stevens, Victoria L., Wang, Ying, Le Marchand, Loic, Wilkens, Lynne R., Weinstein, Stephanie J., Albanes, Demetrius, Cai, Qiuyin, Blot, William J., Arslan, Alan A., Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Zheng, Wei, Yuan, Jian-Min, Koh, Woon-Puay, Visvanathan, Kala, Sesso, Howard D., Zhang, Xuehong, Gaziano, J. Michael, Fanidi, Anouar, Muller, David, Brennan, Paul, Guida, Florence, and Robbins, Hilary A.
Published: 2021
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35. Integration of multiethnic fine-mapping and genomic annotation to prioritize candidate functional SNPs at prostate cancer susceptibility regions

Author: Han, Ying, Hazelett, Dennis J, Wiklund, Fredrik, Schumacher, Fredrick R, Stram, Daniel O, Berndt, Sonja I, Wang, Zhaoming, Rand, Kristin A, Hoover, Robert N, Machiela, Mitchell J, Yeager, Merideth, Burdette, Laurie, Chung, Charles C, Hutchinson, Amy, Yu, Kai, Xu, Jianfeng, Travis, Ruth C, Key, Timothy J, Siddiq, Afshan, Canzian, Federico, Takahashi, Atsushi, Kubo, Michiaki, Stanford, Janet L, Kolb, Suzanne, Gapstur, Susan M, Diver, W Ryan, Stevens, Victoria L, Strom, Sara S, Pettaway, Curtis A, Olama, Ali Amin Al, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Eeles, Rosalind A, Yeboah, Edward D, Tettey, Yao, Biritwum, Richard B, Adjei, Andrew A, Tay, Evelyn, Truelove, Ann, Niwa, Shelley, Chokkalingam, Anand P, Isaacs, William B, Chen, Constance, Lindstrom, Sara, Le Marchand, Loic, Giovannucci, Edward L, Pomerantz, Mark, Long, Henry, Li, Fugen, Ma, Jing, Stampfer, Meir, John, Esther M, Ingles, Sue A, Kittles, Rick A, Murphy, Adam B, Blot, William J, Signorello, Lisa B, Zheng, Wei, Albanes, Demetrius, Virtamo, Jarmo, Weinstein, Stephanie, Nemesure, Barbara, Carpten, John, Leske, M Cristina, Wu, Suh-Yuh, Hennis, Anselm JM, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Hsing, Ann W, Chu, Lisa, Goodman, Phyllis J, Klein, Eric A, Zheng, S Lilly, Witte, John S, Casey, Graham, Riboli, Elio, Li, Qiyuan, Freedman, Matthew L, Hunter, David J, Gronberg, Henrik, Cook, Michael B, Nakagawa, Hidewaki, Kraft, Peter, Chanock, Stephen J, Easton, Douglas F, Henderson, Brian E, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Conti, David V, and Haiman, Christopher A
Subjects: Cancer, Human Genome, Biotechnology, Genetics, Urologic Diseases, Prostate Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Asian People, Black People, Chromosome Mapping, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Male, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, Quantitative Trait Loci, White People, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract: Interpretation of biological mechanisms underlying genetic risk associations for prostate cancer is complicated by the relatively large number of risk variants (n = 100) and the thousands of surrogate SNPs in linkage disequilibrium. Here, we combined three distinct approaches: multiethnic fine-mapping, putative functional annotation (based upon epigenetic data and genome-encoded features), and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analyses, in an attempt to reduce this complexity. We examined 67 risk regions using genotyping and imputation-based fine-mapping in populations of European (cases/controls: 8600/6946), African (cases/controls: 5327/5136), Japanese (cases/controls: 2563/4391) and Latino (cases/controls: 1034/1046) ancestry. Markers at 55 regions passed a region-specific significance threshold (P-value cutoff range: 3.9 × 10(-4)-5.6 × 10(-3)) and in 30 regions we identified markers that were more significantly associated with risk than the previously reported variants in the multiethnic sample. Novel secondary signals (P < 5.0 × 10(-6)) were also detected in two regions (rs13062436/3q21 and rs17181170/3p12). Among 666 variants in the 55 regions with P-values within one order of magnitude of the most-associated marker, 193 variants (29%) in 48 regions overlapped with epigenetic or other putative functional marks. In 11 of the 55 regions, cis-eQTLs were detected with nearby genes. For 12 of the 55 regions (22%), the most significant region-specific, prostate-cancer associated variant represented the strongest candidate functional variant based on our annotations; the number of regions increased to 20 (36%) and 27 (49%) when examining the 2 and 3 most significantly associated variants in each region, respectively. These results have prioritized subsets of candidate variants for downstream functional evaluation.
Published: 2015

36. Characterization of Large Structural Genetic Mosaicism in Human Autosomes

Author: Machiela, Mitchell J, Zhou, Weiyin, Sampson, Joshua N, Dean, Michael C, Jacobs, Kevin B, Black, Amanda, Brinton, Louise A, Chang, I-Shou, Chen, Chu, Chen, Constance, Chen, Kexin, Cook, Linda S, Bou, Marta Crous, De Vivo, Immaculata, Doherty, Jennifer, Friedenreich, Christine M, Gaudet, Mia M, Haiman, Christopher A, Hankinson, Susan E, Hartge, Patricia, Henderson, Brian E, Hong, Yun-Chul, Hosgood, H Dean, Hsiung, Chao A, Hu, Wei, Hunter, David J, Jessop, Lea, Kim, Hee Nam, Kim, Yeul Hong, Kim, Young Tae, Klein, Robert, Kraft, Peter, Lan, Qing, Lin, Dongxin, Liu, Jianjun, Le Marchand, Loic, Liang, Xiaolin, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Lingeng, Magliocco, Anthony M, Matsuo, Keitaro, Olson, Sara H, Orlow, Irene, Park, Jae Yong, Pooler, Loreall, Prescott, Jennifer, Rastogi, Radhai, Risch, Harvey A, Schumacher, Fredrick, Seow, Adeline, Setiawan, Veronica Wendy, Shen, Hongbing, Sheng, Xin, Shin, Min-Ho, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Berg, David VanDen, Wang, Jiu-Cun, Wentzensen, Nicolas, Wong, Maria Pik, Wu, Chen, Wu, Tangchun, Wu, Yi-Long, Xia, Lucy, Yang, Hannah P, Yang, Pan-Chyr, Zheng, Wei, Zhou, Baosen, Abnet, Christian C, Albanes, Demetrius, Aldrich, Melinda C, Amos, Christopher, Amundadottir, Laufey T, Berndt, Sonja I, Blot, William J, Bock, Cathryn H, Bracci, Paige M, Burdett, Laurie, Buring, Julie E, Butler, Mary A, Carreón, Tania, Chatterjee, Nilanjan, Chung, Charles C, Cook, Michael B, Cullen, Michael, Davis, Faith G, Ding, Ti, Duell, Eric J, Epstein, Caroline G, Fan, Jin-Hu, Figueroa, Jonine D, Fraumeni, Joseph F, Freedman, Neal D, Fuchs, Charles S, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gapstur, Susan M, Patiño-Garcia, Ana, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Gaziano, J Michael, Giles, Graham G, and Gillanders, Elizabeth M
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Clinical Research, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Aged, Chromosome Aberrations, Female, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mosaicism, Neoplasms, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: Analyses of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data have revealed that detectable genetic mosaicism involving large (>2 Mb) structural autosomal alterations occurs in a fraction of individuals. We present results for a set of 24,849 genotyped individuals (total GWAS set II [TGSII]) in whom 341 large autosomal abnormalities were observed in 168 (0.68%) individuals. Merging data from the new TGSII set with data from two prior reports (the Gene-Environment Association Studies and the total GWAS set I) generated a large dataset of 127,179 individuals; we then conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the patterns of detectable autosomal mosaicism (n = 1,315 events in 925 [0.73%] individuals). Restricting to events >2 Mb in size, we observed an increase in event frequency as event size decreased. The combined results underscore that the rate of detectable mosaicism increases with age (p value = 5.5 × 10(-31)) and is higher in men (p value = 0.002) but lower in participants of African ancestry (p value = 0.003). In a subset of 47 individuals from whom serial samples were collected up to 6 years apart, complex changes were noted over time and showed an overall increase in the proportion of mosaic cells as age increased. Our large combined sample allowed for a unique ability to characterize detectable genetic mosaicism involving large structural events and strengthens the emerging evidence of non-random erosion of the genome in the aging population.
Published: 2015

37. Generalizability of established prostate cancer risk variants in men of African ancestry

Author: Han, Ying, Signorello, Lisa B, Strom, Sara S, Kittles, Rick A, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Stanford, Janet L, Goodman, Phyllis J, Berndt, Sonja I, Carpten, John, Casey, Graham, Chu, Lisa, Conti, David V, Rand, Kristin A, Diver, W Ryan, Hennis, Anselm JM, John, Esther M, Kibel, Adam S, Klein, Eric A, Kolb, Suzanne, Le Marchand, Loic, Leske, M Cristina, Murphy, Adam B, Neslund‐Dudas, Christine, Park, Jong Y, Pettaway, Curtis, Rebbeck, Timothy R, Gapstur, Susan M, Zheng, S Lilly, Wu, Suh‐Yuh, Witte, John S, Xu, Jianfeng, Isaacs, William, Ingles, Sue A, Hsing, Ann, Consortium, The PRACTICAL, Consortium, The ELLIPSE GAME‐ON, Easton, Douglas F, Eeles, Rosalind A, Schumacher, Fredrick R, Chanock, Stephen, Nemesure, Barbara, Blot, William J, Stram, Daniel O, Henderson, Brian E, and Haiman, Christopher A
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Aging, Prevention, Genetics, Human Genome, Clinical Research, Urologic Diseases, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Black People, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Follow-Up Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prognosis, Prostatic Neoplasms, Risk Factors, prostate cancer, genetic risk variant, generalizability, African ancestry, PRACTICAL Consortium, ELLIPSE GAME-ON Consortium, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have identified more than 80 risk variants for prostate cancer, mainly in European or Asian populations. The generalizability of these variants in other racial/ethnic populations needs to be understood before the loci can be used widely in risk modeling. In our study, we examined 82 previously reported risk variants in 4,853 prostate cancer cases and 4,678 controls of African ancestry. We performed association testing for each variant using logistic regression adjusted for age, study and global ancestry. Of the 82 known risk variants, 68 (83%) had effects that were directionally consistent in their association with prostate cancer risk and 30 (37%) were significantly associated with risk at p < 0.05, with the most statistically significant variants being rs116041037 (p = 3.7 × 10(-26) ) and rs6983561 (p = 1.1 × 10(-16) ) at 8q24, as well as rs7210100 (p = 5.4 × 10(-8) ) at 17q21. By exploring each locus in search of better markers, the number of variants that captured risk in men of African ancestry (p < 0.05) increased from 30 (37%) to 44 (54%). An aggregate score comprised of these 44 markers was strongly associated with prostate cancer risk [per-allele odds ratio (OR) = 1.12, p = 7.3 × 10(-98) ]. In summary, the consistent directions of effects for the vast majority of variants in men of African ancestry indicate common functional alleles that are shared across populations. Further exploration of these susceptibility loci is needed to identify the underlying biologically relevant variants to improve prostate cancer risk modeling in populations of African ancestry.
Published: 2015

38. Leveraging population admixture to characterize the heritability of complex traits.

Author: Zaitlen, Noah, Pasaniuc, Bogdan, Sankararaman, Sriram, Bhatia, Gaurav, Zhang, Jianqi, Gusev, Alexander, Young, Taylor, Tandon, Arti, Pollack, Samuela, Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni J, Assimes, Themistocles L, Berndt, Sonja I, Blot, William J, Chanock, Stephen, Franceschini, Nora, Goodman, Phyllis G, He, Jing, Hennis, Anselm JM, Hsing, Ann, Ingles, Sue A, Isaacs, William, Kittles, Rick A, Klein, Eric A, Lange, Leslie A, Nemesure, Barbara, Patterson, Nick, Reich, David, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Stanford, Janet L, Stevens, Victoria L, Strom, Sara S, Whitsel, Eric A, Witte, John S, Xu, Jianfeng, Haiman, Christopher, Wilson, James G, Kooperberg, Charles, Stram, Daniel, Reiner, Alex P, Tang, Hua, and Price, Alkes L
Subjects: Humans, Prostatic Neoplasms, Cardiovascular Diseases, Body Mass Index, Models, Statistical, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Reproducibility of Results, Chromosome Mapping, Genetics, Population, Epistasis, Genetic, Genotype, Multifactorial Inheritance, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Models, Genetic, Computer Simulation, Aged, Middle Aged, African Continental Ancestry Group, African Americans, United States, Female, Male, Genome-Wide Association Study, Models, Statistical, Genetics, Population, Epistasis, Genetic, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Developmental Biology, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences
Abstract: Despite recent progress on estimating the heritability explained by genotyped SNPs (h(2)g), a large gap between h(2)g and estimates of total narrow-sense heritability (h(2)) remains. Explanations for this gap include rare variants or upward bias in family-based estimates of h(2) due to shared environment or epistasis. We estimate h(2) from unrelated individuals in admixed populations by first estimating the heritability explained by local ancestry (h(2)γ). We show that h(2)γ = 2FSTCθ(1 - θ)h(2), where FSTC measures frequency differences between populations at causal loci and θ is the genome-wide ancestry proportion. Our approach is not susceptible to biases caused by epistasis or shared environment. We applied this approach to the analysis of 13 phenotypes in 21,497 African-American individuals from 3 cohorts. For height and body mass index (BMI), we obtained h(2) estimates of 0.55 ± 0.09 and 0.23 ± 0.06, respectively, which are larger than estimates of h(2)g in these and other data but smaller than family-based estimates of h(2).
Published: 2014

39. Serologic Response to Helicobacter pylori Proteins Associated With Risk of Colorectal Cancer Among Diverse Populations in the United States

Author: Butt, Julia, Varga, Matthew G., Blot, William J., Teras, Lauren, Visvanathan, Kala, Le Marchand, Loïc, Haiman, Christopher, Chen, Yu, Bao, Ying, Sesso, Howard D., Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia, Ho, Gloria Y.F., Tinker, Lesley E., Peek, Richard M., Potter, John D., Cover, Timothy L., Hendrix, Laura H., Huang, Li-Ching, Hyslop, Terry, Um, Caroline, Grodstein, Francine, Song, Mingyang, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne, Berndt, Sonja, Hildesheim, Allan, Waterboer, Tim, Pawlita, Michael, and Epplein, Meira
Published: 2019
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40. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in African Americans provides insights into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes.

Author: Ng, Maggie CY, Shriner, Daniel, Chen, Brian H, Li, Jiang, Chen, Wei-Min, Guo, Xiuqing, Liu, Jiankang, Bielinski, Suzette J, Yanek, Lisa R, Nalls, Michael A, Comeau, Mary E, Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J, Jensen, Richard A, Evans, Daniel S, Sun, Yan V, An, Ping, Patel, Sanjay R, Lu, Yingchang, Long, Jirong, Armstrong, Loren L, Wagenknecht, Lynne, Yang, Lingyao, Snively, Beverly M, Palmer, Nicholette D, Mudgal, Poorva, Langefeld, Carl D, Keene, Keith L, Freedman, Barry I, Mychaleckyj, Josyf C, Nayak, Uma, Raffel, Leslie J, Goodarzi, Mark O, Chen, Y-D Ida, Taylor, Herman A, Correa, Adolfo, Sims, Mario, Couper, David, Pankow, James S, Boerwinkle, Eric, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Doumatey, Ayo, Chen, Guanjie, Mathias, Rasika A, Vaidya, Dhananjay, Singleton, Andrew B, Zonderman, Alan B, Igo, Robert P, Sedor, John R, FIND Consortium, Kabagambe, Edmond K, Siscovick, David S, McKnight, Barbara, Rice, Kenneth, Liu, Yongmei, Hsueh, Wen-Chi, Zhao, Wei, Bielak, Lawrence F, Kraja, Aldi, Province, Michael A, Bottinger, Erwin P, Gottesman, Omri, Cai, Qiuyin, Zheng, Wei, Blot, William J, Lowe, William L, Pacheco, Jennifer A, Crawford, Dana C, eMERGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, Grundberg, Elin, MuTHER Consortium, Rich, Stephen S, Hayes, M Geoffrey, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Loos, Ruth JF, Borecki, Ingrid B, Peyser, Patricia A, Cummings, Steven R, Psaty, Bruce M, Fornage, Myriam, Iyengar, Sudha K, Evans, Michele K, Becker, Diane M, Kao, WH Linda, Wilson, James G, Rotter, Jerome I, Sale, Michèle M, Liu, Simin, Rotimi, Charles N, Bowden, Donald W, and MEta-analysis of type 2 DIabetes in African Americans Consortium
Subjects: FIND Consortium, eMERGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, MuTHER Consortium, MEta-analysis of type 2 DIabetes in African Americans Consortium, Humans, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, HMGA2 Protein, HLA-B27 Antigen, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African Americans, Mutant Chimeric Proteins, KCNQ1 Potassium Channel, Genome-Wide Association Study, Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Protein, Human Genome, Diabetes, Genetics, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is more prevalent in African Americans than in Europeans. However, little is known about the genetic risk in African Americans despite the recent identification of more than 70 T2D loci primarily by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in individuals of European ancestry. In order to investigate the genetic architecture of T2D in African Americans, the MEta-analysis of type 2 DIabetes in African Americans (MEDIA) Consortium examined 17 GWAS on T2D comprising 8,284 cases and 15,543 controls in African Americans in stage 1 analysis. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) association analysis was conducted in each study under the additive model after adjustment for age, sex, study site, and principal components. Meta-analysis of approximately 2.6 million genotyped and imputed SNPs in all studies was conducted using an inverse variance-weighted fixed effect model. Replications were performed to follow up 21 loci in up to 6,061 cases and 5,483 controls in African Americans, and 8,130 cases and 38,987 controls of European ancestry. We identified three known loci (TCF7L2, HMGA2 and KCNQ1) and two novel loci (HLA-B and INS-IGF2) at genome-wide significance (4.15 × 10(-94)
Published: 2014

41. Lymphedema Signs, Symptoms, and Diagnosis in Women Who Are in Minority and Low-Income Groups and Have Survived Breast Cancer

Author: Flores, Ann Marie, Nelson, Jason, Sowles, Lee, Stephenson, Rebecca G., Robinson, Kathryn, Cheville, Andrea, Sander, Antoinette P., and Blot, William J.
Subjects: Personal income, Cancer treatment, African Americans, Cancer research, Lymphedema, Women, Breast cancer, Edema, Fibrosis, Health
Abstract: Background. Breast cancer--related lymphedema (BCRL) is a well-known side effect of cancer and its treatment with wide-ranging prevalence estimates. Objective. This study describes associations between breast cancer--related lymphedema (BCRL) signs, symptoms, and diagnosis for women who were African American, white, or had a low income and survived breast cancer. Design. This is a cross-sectional, observational study that used a computer-assisted telephone interview. Methods. Women who had survived breast cancer were queried on the presence of 5 lymphedema signs and symptoms (edema in the breast, axilla, arm, and/or hand; tissue fibrosis; pitting; hemosiderin staining; heaviness) and whether they had a diagnosis of BCRL. Relationships between signs/symptoms and diagnosis for each group were evaluated with kappa and chi-square statistics. Results. The study sample included 528 women who had survived breast cancer (266 white and 262 African American), with 514 reporting complete data on household income; 45% of the latter reported an annual household income of [less than or equal to]$20,000. Women who were African American or had a low income were nearly twice as likely as women who were white to have any of 8 signs/symptoms of BCRL. Regardless of race and income, >50% of women with all BCRL signs and symptoms reported that they were not diagnosed with BCRL. Limitations. The main limitations of our study are the lack of medical chart data and longitudinal design. Conclusions. Women who were African American or had a low income and had survived breast cancer had a greater burden of BCRL signs and symptoms than women who were white. The lack of a strong association between BCRL signs, symptoms, and diagnosis suggests that BCRL may be underdiagnosed. These findings suggest that more rigorous screening and detection of BCRL--especially for women who are African American or have a low income--may be warranted. Cancer rehabilitation programs may be able to fill this gap., Breast cancer--related lymphedema (BCRL) is a well-known side effect of cancer and its treatment with wide-ranging prevalence estimates. (1,2) There is no general consensus on prevalence rates of BCRL and [...]
Published: 2020
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42. Cancer and Noncancer Mortality in Populations Living near Uranium and Vanadium Mining and Milling Operations in Montrose County, Colorado, 1950-2000

Author: Boice,, John D. and Blot, William J.
Published: 2007

43. The landscape of recombination in African Americans

Author: Hinch, Anjali G, Tandon, Arti, Patterson, Nick, Song, Yunli, Rohland, Nadin, Palmer, Cameron D, Chen, Gary K, Wang, Kai, Buxbaum, Sarah G, Akylbekova, Ermeg L, Aldrich, Melinda C, Ambrosone, Christine B, Amos, Christopher, Bandera, Elisa V, Berndt, Sonja I, Bernstein, Leslie, Blot, William J, Bock, Cathryn H, Boerwinkle, Eric, Cai, Qiuyin, Caporaso, Neil, Casey, Graham, Adrienne Cupples, L, Deming, Sandra L, Ryan Diver, W, Divers, Jasmin, Fornage, Myriam, Gillanders, Elizabeth M, Glessner, Joseph, Harris, Curtis C, Hu, Jennifer J, Ingles, Sue A, Isaacs, William, John, Esther M, Linda Kao, WH, Keating, Brendan, Kittles, Rick A, Kolonel, Laurence N, Larkin, Emma, Le Marchand, Loic, McNeill, Lorna H, Millikan, Robert C, Murphy, Musani, Solomon, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Nyante, Sarah, Papanicolaou, George J, Press, Michael F, Psaty, Bruce M, Reiner, Alex P, Rich, Stephen S, Rodriguez-Gil, Jorge L, Rotter, Jerome I, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Schwartz, Ann G, Signorello, Lisa B, Spitz, Margaret, Strom, Sara S, Thun, Michael J, Tucker, Margaret A, Wang, Zhaoming, Wiencke, John K, Witte, John S, Wrensch, Margaret, Wu, Xifeng, Yamamura, Yuko, Zanetti, Krista A, Zheng, Wei, Ziegler, Regina G, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Redline, Susan, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Henderson, Brian E, Taylor Jr, Herman A, Price, Alkes L, Hakonarson, Hakon, Chanock, Stephen J, Haiman, Christopher A, Wilson, James G, Reich, David, and Myers, Simon R
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Biotechnology, Africa, Western, Black or African American, Alleles, Amino Acid Motifs, Base Sequence, Chromosome Mapping, Crossing Over, Genetic, Europe, Evolution, Molecular, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetics, Population, Genome, Human, Genomics, Haplotypes, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Humans, Male, Molecular Sequence Data, Pedigree, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Probability, White People, General Science & Technology
Abstract: Recombination, together with mutation, gives rise to genetic variation in populations. Here we leverage the recent mixture of people of African and European ancestry in the Americas to build a genetic map measuring the probability of crossing over at each position in the genome, based on about 2.1 million crossovers in 30,000 unrelated African Americans. At intervals of more than three megabases it is nearly identical to a map built in Europeans. At finer scales it differs significantly, and we identify about 2,500 recombination hotspots that are active in people of West African ancestry but nearly inactive in Europeans. The probability of a crossover at these hotspots is almost fully controlled by the alleles an individual carries at PRDM9 (P value
Published: 2011

44. Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer in men of African ancestry identifies a susceptibility locus at 17q21

Author: Haiman, Christopher A, Chen, Gary K, Blot, William J, Strom, Sara S, Berndt, Sonja I, Kittles, Rick A, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Isaacs, William B, Ingles, Sue A, Stanford, Janet L, Diver, W Ryan, Witte, John S, Hsing, Ann W, Nemesure, Barbara, Rebbeck, Timothy R, Cooney, Kathleen A, Xu, Jianfeng, Kibel, Adam S, Hu, Jennifer J, John, Esther M, Gueye, Serigne M, Watya, Stephen, Signorello, Lisa B, Hayes, Richard B, Wang, Zhaoming, Yeboah, Edward, Tettey, Yao, Cai, Qiuyin, Kolb, Suzanne, Ostrander, Elaine A, Zeigler-Johnson, Charnita, Yamamura, Yuko, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Haslag-Minoff, Jennifer, Wu, William, Thomas, Venetta, Allen, Glenn O, Murphy, Adam, Chang, Bao-Li, Zheng, S Lilly, Leske, M Cristina, Wu, Suh-Yuh, Ray, Anna M, Hennis, Anselm JM, Thun, Michael J, Carpten, John, Casey, Graham, Carter, Erin N, Duarte, Edder R, Xia, Lucy Y, Sheng, Xin, Wan, Peggy, Pooler, Loreall C, Cheng, Iona, Monroe, Kristine R, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Kolonel, Laurence N, Chanock, Stephen J, Berg, David Van Den, Stram, Daniel O, and Henderson, Brian E
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Aging, Urologic Diseases, Prevention, Prostate Cancer, Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Black or African American, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract: In search of common risk alleles for prostate cancer that could contribute to high rates of the disease in men of African ancestry, we conducted a genome-wide association study, with 1,047,986 SNP markers examined in 3,425 African-Americans with prostate cancer (cases) and 3,290 African-American male controls. We followed up the most significant 17 new associations from stage 1 in 1,844 cases and 3,269 controls of African ancestry. We identified a new risk variant on chromosome 17q21 (rs7210100, odds ratio per allele = 1.51, P = 3.4 × 10(-13)). The frequency of the risk allele is ∼5% in men of African descent, whereas it is rare in other populations (
Published: 2011

45. Evaluating approaches for constructing polygenic risk scores for prostate cancer in men of African and European ancestry

Author: Darst, Burcu F., primary, Shen, Jiayi, additional, Madduri, Ravi K., additional, Rodriguez, Alexis A., additional, Xiao, Yukai, additional, Sheng, Xin, additional, Saunders, Edward J., additional, Dadaev, Tokhir, additional, Brook, Mark N., additional, Hoffmann, Thomas J., additional, Muir, Kenneth, additional, Wan, Peggy, additional, Le Marchand, Loic, additional, Wilkens, Lynne, additional, Wang, Ying, additional, Schleutker, Johanna, additional, MacInnis, Robert J., additional, Cybulski, Cezary, additional, Neal, David E., additional, Nordestgaard, Børge G., additional, Nielsen, Sune F., additional, Batra, Jyotsna, additional, Clements, Judith A., additional, Cancer BioResource, Australian Prostate, additional, Grönberg, Henrik, additional, Pashayan, Nora, additional, Travis, Ruth C., additional, Park, Jong Y., additional, Albanes, Demetrius, additional, Weinstein, Stephanie, additional, Mucci, Lorelei A., additional, Hunter, David J., additional, Penney, Kathryn L., additional, Tangen, Catherine M., additional, Hamilton, Robert J., additional, Parent, Marie-Élise, additional, Stanford, Janet L., additional, Koutros, Stella, additional, Wolk, Alicja, additional, Sørensen, Karina D., additional, Blot, William J., additional, Yeboah, Edward D., additional, Mensah, James E., additional, Lu, Yong-Jie, additional, Schaid, Daniel J., additional, Thibodeau, Stephen N., additional, West, Catharine M., additional, Maier, Christiane, additional, Kibel, Adam S., additional, Cancel-Tassin, Géraldine, additional, Menegaux, Florence, additional, John, Esther M., additional, Grindedal, Eli Marie, additional, Khaw, Kay-Tee, additional, Ingles, Sue A., additional, Vega, Ana, additional, Rosenstein, Barry S., additional, Teixeira, Manuel R., additional, Kogevinas, Manolis, additional, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, additional, Huff, Chad, additional, Multigner, Luc, additional, Kaneva, Radka, additional, Leach, Robin J., additional, Brenner, Hermann, additional, Hsing, Ann W., additional, Kittles, Rick A., additional, Murphy, Adam B., additional, Logothetis, Christopher J., additional, Neuhausen, Susan L., additional, Isaacs, William B., additional, Nemesure, Barbara, additional, Hennis, Anselm J., additional, Carpten, John, additional, Pandha, Hardev, additional, De Ruyck, Kim, additional, Xu, Jianfeng, additional, Razack, Azad, additional, Teo, Soo-Hwang, additional, Newcomb, Lisa F., additional, Fowke, Jay H., additional, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, additional, Rybicki, Benjamin A., additional, Gamulin, Marija, additional, Usmani, Nawaid, additional, Claessens, Frank, additional, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, additional, Castelao, Jose Esteban, additional, Townsend, Paul A., additional, Crawford, Dana C., additional, Petrovics, Gyorgy, additional, Casey, Graham, additional, Roobol, Monique J., additional, Hu, Jennifer F., additional, Berndt, Sonja I., additional, Van Den Eeden, Stephen K., additional, Easton, Douglas F., additional, Chanock, Stephen J., additional, Cook, Michael B., additional, Wiklund, Fredrik, additional, Witte, John S., additional, Eeles, Rosalind A., additional, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, additional, Watya, Stephen, additional, Gaziano, John M., additional, Justice, Amy C., additional, Conti, David V., additional, and Haiman, Christopher A., additional
Published: 2023
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46. Prospective Study of Serum Retinol, β-Carotene, β-Cryptoxanthin, and Lutein/Zeaxanthin and Esophageal and Gastric Cancers in China

Author: Abnet, Christian C., Qiao, You-Lin, Dawsey, Sanford M., Buckman, Dennis W., Yang, Chung S., Blot, William J., Dong, Zhi-Wei, Taylor, Philip R., and Mark, Steven D.
Published: 2003

47. Progress in Chemoprevention Drug Development: The Promise of Molecular Biomarkers for Prevention of Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Cancer—A Plan to Move Forward

Author: Kelloff, Gary J, Lippman, Scott M, Dannenberg, Andrew J, Sigman, Caroline C, Pearce, Homer L, Reid, Brian J, Szabo, Eva, Jordan, V Craig, Spitz, Margaret R, Mills, Gordon B, Papadimitrakopoulou, Vali A, Lotan, Reuben, Aggarwal, Bharat B, Bresalier, Robert S, Kim, Jeri, Arun, Banu, Lu, Karen H, Thomas, Melanie E, Rhodes, Helen E, Brewer, Molly A, Follen, Michele, Shin, Dong M, Parnes, Howard L, Siegfried, Jill M, Evans, Alison A, Blot, William J, Chow, Wong-Ho, Blount, Patricia L, Maley, Carlo C, Wang, Kenneth K, Lam, Stephen, Lee, J Jack, Dubinett, Steven M, Engstrom, Paul F, Meyskens, Frank L, O'Shaughnessy, Joyce, Hawk, Ernest T, Levin, Bernard, Nelson, William G, Hong, Waun Ki, and Prevention, for the AACR Task Force on Cancer
Subjects: Clinical Research, Cancer, Prevention, Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities, Detection, screening and diagnosis, 4.1 Discovery and preclinical testing of markers and technologies, Good Health and Well Being, Biomarkers, Tumor, Breast Neoplasms, Chemoprevention, Colorectal Neoplasms, Disease Progression, Female, Humans, Infections, Inflammation, Male, Monitoring, Physiologic, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial, Signal Transduction, AACR Task Force on Cancer Prevention, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis
Abstract: This article reviews progress in chemopreventive drug development, especially data and concepts that are new since the 2002 AACR report on treatment and prevention of intraepithelial neoplasia. Molecular biomarker expressions involved in mechanisms of carcinogenesis and genetic progression models of intraepithelial neoplasia are discussed and analyzed for how they can inform mechanism-based, molecularly targeted drug development as well as risk stratification, cohort selection, and end-point selection for clinical trials. We outline the concept of augmenting the risk, mechanistic, and disease data from histopathologic intraepithelial neoplasia assessments with molecular biomarker data. Updates of work in 10 clinical target organ sites include new data on molecular progression, significant completed trials, new agents of interest, and promising directions for future clinical studies. This overview concludes with strategies for accelerating chemopreventive drug development, such as integrating the best science into chemopreventive strategies and regulatory policy, providing incentives for industry to accelerate preventive drugs, fostering multisector cooperation in sharing clinical samples and data, and creating public-private partnerships to foster new regulatory policies and public education.
Published: 2006

48. An Examination of the Sensitivity of Reported Trends in Childhood Leukemia Incidence Rates to Geographic Location and Diagnostic Coding (United States)

Author: Liberson, Gary L., Golden, Robert J., Blot, William J., Fisch, Harry, and Watson, Christopher
Published: 2000

49. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Use of H₂ Receptor Antagonists, and Risk of Esophageal and Gastric Cancer

Author: Farrow, Diana C., Vaughan, Thomas L., Sweeney, Carol, Gammon, Marilie D., Chow, Wong-Ho, Risch, Harvey A., Stanford, Janet L., Hansten, Philip D., Mayne, Susan T., Schoenberg, Janet B., Rotterdam, Heidi, Ahsan, Habibul, West, A. Brian, Dubrow, Robert, Fraumeni, Joseph F., and Blot, William J.
Published: 2000

50. The Association between Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Breast Cancer Risk in Black and White Women in the Southern Community Cohort Study

Author: Xiao, Qian, Gierach, Gretchen L., Bauer, Cici, Blot, William J., James, Peter, and Jones, Rena R.
Subjects: Women, Black -- Health aspects, White women -- Health aspects, Breast cancer -- Risk factors -- Demographic aspects -- Environmental aspects, Light pollution -- Health aspects, Environmental issues, Health
Abstract: Introduction Black women in the United States are more likely to develop breast cancer at a younger age and to be diagnosed with more aggressive subtypes and more advanced stage [...]
Published: 2021
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