Epidemiology of lung cancer

KC Thandra, A Barsouk, K Saginala, JS Aluru… - Contemporary …, 2021 - termedia.pl
Lung cancer is the leading cause of global cancer incidence and mortality, accounting for an
estimated 2 million diagnoses and 1.8 million deaths. Neoplasms of the lungs are the …

Genetic differences between smokers and never-smokers with lung cancer

P Kuśnierczyk - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Smoking is a major risk factor for lung cancer, therefore lung cancer epidemiological trends
reflect the past trends of cigarette smoking to a great extent. The geographic patterns in …

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals heterogeneous tumor and immune cell populations in early-stage lung adenocarcinomas harboring EGFR mutations

D He, D Wang, P Lu, N Yang, Z Xue, X Zhu, P Zhang… - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) harboring EGFR mutations prevails in Asian population.
However, the inter-patient and intra-tumor heterogeneity has not been addressed at single …

Integrating transcription factor occupancy with transcriptome-wide association analysis identifies susceptibility genes in human cancers

J He, W Wen, A Beeghly, Z Chen, C Cao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have successfully discovered many
putative disease susceptibility genes. However, TWAS may suffer from inaccuracy of gene …

Age at lung cancer diagnosis in females versus males who never smoke by race and ethnicity

B Blechter, JYY Wong, LH Chien, K Shiraishi… - British Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Background We characterized age at diagnosis and estimated sex differences for lung
cancer and its histological subtypes among individuals who never smoke. Methods We …

Feature selection may improve deep neural networks for the bioinformatics problems

Z Chen, M Pang, Z Zhao, S Li, R Miao, Y Zhang… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Deep neural network (DNN) algorithms were utilized in predicting various
biomedical phenotypes recently, and demonstrated very good prediction performances …

Lung cancer risk in never-smokers: An overview of environmental and genetic factors

ES Cheng, M Weber, J Steinberg… - Chinese Journal of …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality globally, accounting for 1.8
million deaths in 2020. While the vast majority are caused by tobacco smoking, 15%− 25 …

Functional studies of lung cancer GWAS beyond association

E Long, H Patel, J Byun, CI Amos… - Human molecular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fourteen years after the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of lung cancer was
published, approximately 45 genomic loci have now been significantly associated with lung …

Epidermal growth factor receptor gene in non‐small‐cell lung cancer: the importance of promoter polymorphism investigation

V Jurišić, J Obradovic, S Pavlović… - Analytical Cellular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) was a key molecule in investigation of
lung cancer, and it was a target for a new therapeutic strategy, based on molecular …

Genome-wide association study of lung adenocarcinoma in East Asia and comparison with a European population

J Shi, K Shiraishi, J Choi, K Matsuo, TY Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer. Known risk variants explain
only a small fraction of lung adenocarcinoma heritability. Here, we conducted a two-stage …