Assessing the genetic architecture of epithelial ovarian cancer histological subtypes

Human Genetics

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 741-756

  Cuellar Partida, Gabriel ^a,b   Lu, Yi ^a   Dixon, Suzanne C ^a,b   Australian Ovarian Cancer Study, ^a,c   Fasching, Peter A ^e,f   Hein, Alexander ^f   Burghaus, Stefanie ^f   Beckmann, Matthias W ^f   Lambrechts, Diether ^g,h   Van Nieuwenhuysen, Els ⁱ   Vergote, Ignace ⁱ   Vanderstichele, Adriaan ⁱ   Doherty, Jennifer Anne ^j   Rossing, Mary Anne ^k,l   Chang Claude, Jenny ^m,bn   Rudolph, Anja ^m   Wang Gohrke, Shan ⁿ   Goodman, Marc T ^o   Bogdanova, Natalia ^p   Dörk, Thilo ^p   Dürst, Matthias ^q   Hillemanns, Peter ^p   Runnebaum, Ingo B ^q   Antonenkova, Natalia ^r   Butzow, Ralf ^s   Leminen, Arto ^s   Nevanlinna, Heli ^s   Pelttari, Liisa M ^s   Edwards, Robert P ^t,u   Kelley, Joseph L ^t   Modugno, Francesmary ^t,u,v   Moysich, Kirsten B ^w   Ness, Roberta B ^x   Cannioto, Rikki ^w   Høgdall, Estrid ^y,z   Høgdall, Claus ^z   Jensen, Allan ^y   Giles, Graham G ^aa,ab,ac   Bruinsma, Fiona ^ac   Kjaer, Susanne K ^y,z   Hildebrandt, Michelle A T ^ad   Liang, Dong ^ae   Lu, Karen H ^ad   Wu, Xifeng ^ad   Bisogna, Maria ^af   Dao, Fanny ^af   Levine, Douglas A ^af   Cramer, Daniel W ^ag   Terry, Kathryn L ^ag,ah   Tworoger, Shelley S ^ag,ah   Stampfer, Meir ^ag,ah   Missmer, Stacey ^ag,ah   Bjorge, Line ^ai,aj   Salvesen, Helga B ^ai,aj   Kopperud, Reidun K ^ai,aj   Bischof, Katharina ^ai,aj   Aben, Katja K H ^ak,al   Kiemeney, Lambertus A ^ak   Massuger, Leon F A G ^am   Brooks Wilson, Angela ^an,ao   Olson, Sara H ^af   McGuire, Valerie ^ap   Rothstein, Joseph H ^ap   Sieh, Weiva ^ap   Whittemore, Alice S ^ap   Cook, Linda S ^aq   Le, Nhu D ^an   Blake Gilks, C ^ar   Gronwald, Jacek ^as   Jakubowska, Anna ^as   Lubiński, Jan ^as   Kluz, Tomasz ^at   Song, Honglin ^d   Tyrer, Jonathan P ^d   Wentzensen, Nicolas ^au   Brinton, Louise ^au   Trabert, Britton ^au   Lissowska, Jolanta ^av   McLaughlin, John R ^aw   Narod, Steven A ^ax   Phelan, Catherine ^ay   Anton Culver, Hoda ^az,ba   Ziogas, Argyrios ^az   Eccles, Diana ^bb   Campbell, Ian ^c   Gayther, Simon A ^bc   Gentry Maharaj, Aleksandra ^bd   Menon, Usha ^bd   Ramus, Susan J ^bc   Wu, Anna H ^bc   Dansonka Mieszkowska, Agnieszka ^av   Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta ^av   Timorek, Agnieszka ^be   Szafron, Lukasz ^av   Cunningham, Julie M ^bf   Fridley, Brooke L ^bg   Winham, Stacey J ^bf   Bandera, Elisa V ^bh   Poole, Elizabeth M ^ag   Morgan, Terry K ^bi   Goode, Ellen L ^bf   Schildkraut, Joellen M ^bj   Pearce, Celeste L ^bc,bk   Berchuck, Andrew ^bl   Pharoah, Paul D P ^d   Webb, Penelope M ^a,b   Chenevix Trench, Georgia ^a   Risch, Harvey A ^bm   MacGregor, Stuart ^a   more..

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^h DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^j DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^l Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^m GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^o CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^p HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^q FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^r NN Alexandrov National Cancer Center of Belarus   (Belarus)

^s HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^t UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^w ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^y DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^z UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^aa MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^ac CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^ae TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^af MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^ag BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^ah HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^ai HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^ak RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^al The Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation   (Netherlands)

^am RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^an BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^ao SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^ap STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^ar UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^as POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^at UNIVERSITY OF RZESZÓW   (Poland)

^au NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^av INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^aw PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^ax UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^ay H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^az UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ba UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^bb UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^bc UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^bd UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^be MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^bf MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^bg UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^bh RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^bi OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bj UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^bk UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^bl DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^bm YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bn UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; COLLOID CARCINOMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MENARCHE; OBESITY; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEOPLASM; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84963682858     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-016-1663-9     Document Type: Article

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