Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States

VA Zavala, PM Bracci, JM Carethers… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
There are well-established disparities in cancer incidence and outcomes by race/ethnicity
that result from the interplay between structural, socioeconomic, socio-environmental …

Next-generation sequencing in oncology: genetic diagnosis, risk prediction and cancer classification

R Kamps, RD Brandão, BJ van den Bosch… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has expanded in the last decades with
significant improvements in the reliability, sequencing chemistry, pipeline analyses, data …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer and breast cancer subtypes

N Mavaddat, K Michailidou, J Dennis, M Lush… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Stratification of women according to their risk of breast cancer based on polygenic risk
scores (PRSs) could improve screening and prevention strategies. Our aim was to develop …

Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis

N Papadimitriou, N Dimou, KK Tsilidis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Physical activity has been associated with lower risks of breast and colorectal cancer in
epidemiological studies; however, it is unknown if these associations are causal or …

Engineering triangular carbon quantum dots with unprecedented narrow bandwidth emission for multicolored LEDs

F Yuan, T Yuan, L Sui, Z Wang, Z **, Y Li, X Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have emerged as promising materials for optoelectronic
applications on account of carbon's intrinsic merits of high stability, low cost, and …

Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

H Zhang, TU Ahearn, J Lecarpentier, D Barnes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor
subtype,–. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including …

Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

K Michailidou, S Lindström, J Dennis, J Beesley, S Hui… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Breast cancer risk is influenced by rare coding variants in susceptibility genes, such as
BRCA1, and many common, mostly non-coding variants. However, much of the genetic …

Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

JR Huyghe, SA Bien, TA Harrison, HM Kang, S Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To further dissect the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer (CRC), we performed whole-
genome sequencing of 1,439 cases and 720 controls, imputed discovered sequence …

The new NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (GWAS Catalog)

J MacArthur, E Bowler, M Cerezo, L Gil… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog has provided data from published genome-wide
association studies since 2008. In 2015, the database was redesigned and relocated to …

Pan-cancer study detects genetic risk variants and shared genetic basis in two large cohorts

SR Rashkin, RE Graff, L Kachuri, KK Thai… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Deciphering the shared genetic basis of distinct cancers has the potential to elucidate
carcinogenic mechanisms and inform broadly applicable risk assessment efforts. Here, we …