Inherited susceptibility to common cancers

WD Foulkes - New England Journal of Medicine, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
This review deals with germ-line genes that increase susceptibility to five major types of
cancer: breast, lung, pancreatic, prostate, and colorectal cancer. Often familial, often …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic susceptibility to breast cancer

N Mavaddat, AC Antoniou, DF Easton… - Molecular …, 2010 - Elsevier
Genetic and lifestyle/environmental factors are implicated in the aetiology of breast cancer.
This review summarizes the current state of knowledge on rare high penetrance mutations …

A multistage genome-wide association study in breast cancer identifies two new risk alleles at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (RAD51L1)

G Thomas, KB Jacobs, P Kraft, M Yeager… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
We conducted a three-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) of breast cancer in
9,770 cases and 10,799 controls in the Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS) …

RNF146 is a poly (ADP-ribose)-directed E3 ligase that regulates axin degradation and Wnt signalling

Y Zhang, S Liu, C Mickanin, Y Feng, O Charlat… - Nature cell …, 2011 - nature.com
The Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway plays essential roles in embryonic development and
adult tissue homeostasis, and deregulation of this pathway has been linked to cancer. Axin …

Genome-wide association study identifies a new breast cancer susceptibility locus at 6q25. 1

W Zheng, J Long, YT Gao, C Li, Y Zheng, YB ** hereditary breast cancer is germline mutations
occurring in breast cancer (BCs) susceptibility genes, for example, BRCA1, BRCA2, TP53 …

Hereditary breast cancer: new genetic developments, new therapeutic avenues

PM Campeau, WD Foulkes, MD Tischkowitz - Human genetics, 2008 - Springer
Six genes confer a high risk for develo** breast cancer (BRCA1/2, TP53, PTEN, STK11,
CDH1). Both BRCA1 and BRCA2 have DNA repair functions, and BRCA1/2 deficient tumors …

Genetic predisposition to breast cancer: past, present, and future

C Turnbull, N Rahman - Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet., 2008 - annualreviews.org
In recent years, our understanding of genetic predisposition to breast cancer has advanced
significantly. Three classes of predisposition factors, categorized by their associated risks of …

Cancer PRSweb: an online repository with polygenic risk scores for major cancer traits and their evaluation in two independent biobanks

LG Fritsche, S Patil, LJ Beesley, P VandeHaar… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
To facilitate scientific collaboration on polygenic risk scores (PRSs) research, we created an
extensive PRS online repository for 35 common cancer traits integrating freely available …

Genetic variants associated with breast-cancer risk: comprehensive research synopsis, meta-analysis, and epidemiological evidence

B Zhang, A Beeghly-Fadiel, J Long, W Zheng - The lancet oncology, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background More than 1000 reports have been published in the past two decades on
associations between variants in candidate genes and risk of breast cancer. Results have …