Ethnic differences in cancer incidence: A marker for inherited susceptibility?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 4, 1997, Pages 897-900

  Gilliland, Frank D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BRCA1; Cancer; Ethnicity; Molecular epidemiology; p53; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL GROWTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0030754660     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s4897     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (26)

1. Fraumeni J Jr, Devesa S, Hoover R, Kinlen L. Epidemiology of cancer. In: Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, Vol 1 (DeVita V Jr, Hellman S, Rosenberg S, eds). Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1994; 150-183.
2. Parkin D, Muir C, Whelan S, Gao Y, Ferlay J, Powell J, eds. Cancer Incidence in Five Continents, Vol 6. IARC Scientific Publications No 120. Lyon:International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1992.
3. Tomatis L, Aitio A, Day N, Heseltine E, Kaldor J, Miller A, Parkin D, Riboli E, eds. Cancer: Causes, Occurrence and Control. IARC Scientific Publications No 100. Lyon: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1990.
4. Polednak A. Host Factors in Disease: Age, Sex, Racial and Ethnic Group, and Body Build. Springfield, IL:CC Thomas, 1987.
5. Polendak A. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Disease. New York:Oxford University Press, 1989.
6. MacMahon B, Pugh T. Epidemiology: Principles and Methods. Boston:Little Brown, 1970.
7. Pearce N, Matos E, Vainio H, Boffetta P, Kogevinas M, eds. Occupational Cancer in Developing Countries. IARC Scientific Publications No 129. Lyon:International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1994.
8. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Census of the Population 1990: Social and Economic characteristics. Final Report. New Mexico. CP-2-33. Washington:U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990.
9. Schottenfeld D, Fraumeni JF. Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention. Philadelphia:W.B. Saunders, 1982.
10. Jones L, ed. Minorities and Cancer. New York-Springer-Verlag, 1989.
11. Doll R, Peto R. The Causes of Cancer. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1981.
12. Harris C. Tumor suppressor genes, multistage carcinogenesis and molecular epidemiology. In: Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis in Risk Identification (Vainio H, Magee P, McGregor D, McMichael A, eds). IARC Scientific Publications No 116. Lyon:International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1992;67-85.
13. Knudson A. The genetic predispostion to cancer. Birth Defects Orig Artic Ser 25:15-27 (1989).
14. Knudson A. Hereditary cancer, oncogenes, and antioncogenes. Cancer Res 45:1437-1443 (1985).
15. Shields P. Pharmacogenetics: detecting sensitive populations. Environ Health Perspect 102(Supp 11):81-87 (1994).
16. Inoue R, Fukutomi T, Ushijima T, Matsumoto Y, Sugimura T, Nagao M. Germline mutation of BRCA1 in Japanese breast cancer families. Cancer Res 55:3521-3524 (1995).
17. Ford D, Easton D, Bishop D, Narod S, Goldgar D. Risks of cancer in BRCA1-mutation carriers. Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium. Lancet 343:692-695 (1994).
18. Johannsson O, Ostermeyer E, Hakansson S, Friedman L, Johansson U, Sellberg G, Brondum-Nielson K, Sele V, Olsson H, King M-C et al. Founding BRCA1 mutations in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer in southern Sweden. Am J Hum Genet 58:441-450 (1996).
19. Struewing JP, Abeliovich D, Peretz T, Avishai N, Kaback MM, Collins FS, Brody LC. The carrier frequency of the BRCA1 185delAG mutation is approximately 1 percent in Ashkenazi Jewish individuals. Nat Genet 11:198-200 (1995).
20. Barkardottir RB, Arason A, Egilsson V, Gudmundsson J, Jonasdottir A, Johannesdottir G. Chromosome 17q-linkage seems to be infrequent in Icelandic families at risk of breast cancer. Acta Oncol 34:657-662 (1995).
21. Miki Y, Swensen J, Shattuck-Eidens D, Futreal PA, Harshman K, Tavtigian S, Liu Q, Cochran C, Bennett LM, Ding W et al. A strong candidate for the breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1. Science 266:66-71 (1994).
22. Easton DF, Bishop DT, Ford D, Crockford GP. Genetic linkage analysis in familial breast and ovarian cancer: results from 214 families. Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium. Am J Hum Genet 52:678-701 (1993).
23. Szabo CI, King MC. Inherited breast and ovarian cancer. Hum Mol Genet 4:1811-1817 (1995).
24. Ford D, Easton DF. The genetics of breast and ovarian cancer. Br J Cancer 72:805-812 (1995).
25. Goldgar DE, Reilly PR. A common BRCA1 mutation in the Ashkenazim. Nat Genet 11:113-114 (1995).
26. Knudson A. Antioncogenes and human cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 90:10914-10921 (1993).