Most common 'sporadic' cancers have a significant germline genetic component

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 6112-6118

  Lu, Yi ^a   Ek, Weronica E ^a   Whiteman, David ^a   Vaughan, Thomas L ^b   Spurdle, Amanda B ^a   Easton, Douglas F ^c   Pharoah, Paul D ^c   Thompson, Deborah J ^c   Dunning, Alison M ^c   Hayward, Nicholas K ^a   Chenevix Trench, Georgia ^a   Macgregor, Stuart ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMLINE MUTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROSTATE CANCER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; X CHROMOSOME; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; NEOPLASM;

FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84911369978     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu312     Document Type: Article

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