FGFR signalling in women's cancers

AE Fearon, CR Gould, RP Grose - … Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 2013 - Elsevier
FGFs, in a complex with their receptors (FGFRs) and heparan sulfate (HS), are responsible
for a range of cellular functions, from embryogenesis to metabolism. Both germ line and …

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 …

Variants of FGFR2 and their associations with breast cancer risk: a HUGE systematic review and meta-analysis

F Cui, D Wu, W Wang, X He, M Wang - Breast cancer research and …, 2016 - Springer
Extensive epidemiological studies have demonstrated that there are associations between
variants in intron 2 of FGFR2 and the breast cancer risk in various populations; however, the …

BRCA1/2-negative, high-risk breast cancers (BRCAX) for Asian women: genetic susceptibility loci and their potential impacts

JY Lee, J Kim, SW Kim, SK Park, SH Ahn, MH Lee… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract “BRCAX” refers breast cancers occurring in women with a family history predictive
of being a BRCA1/2 mutation carrier, but BRCA1/2 genetic screening has failed to find …

Cancer risk assessment using genetic panel testing: considerations for clinical application

S Hiraki, ES Rinella, F Schnabel, R Oratz… - Journal of genetic …, 2014 - Springer
With the completion of the Human Genome Project and the development of high throughput
technologies, such as next-generation sequencing, the use of multiplex genetic testing, in …

Identification of candidate causal variants and target genes at 41 breast cancer risk loci through differential allelic expression analysis

JM Xavier, R Magno, R Russell, BP de Almeida… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding breast cancer genetic risk relies on identifying causal variants and candidate
target genes in risk loci identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which …

A Meta-Analysis of the Association between ESR1 Genetic Variants and the Risk of Breast Cancer

T Li, J Zhao, J Yang, X Ma, Q Dai, H Huang, L Wang… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the estrogen receptor gene (ESR1)
play critical roles in breast cancer (BC) susceptibility. Genome-wide association studies …

Boosting GWAS using biological networks: A study on susceptibility to familial breast cancer

H Climente-González, C Lonjou… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) explore the genetic causes of complex diseases.
However, classical approaches ignore the biological context of the genetic variants and …

Risk-Association of Five SNPs in TOX3/LOC643714 with Breast Cancer in Southern China

X He, G Yao, F Li, M Li, X Yang - International Journal of Molecular …, 2014 - mdpi.com
The specific mechanism by which low-risk genetic variants confer breast cancer risk is
currently unclear, with contradictory evidence on the role of single nucleotide …

Association of three SNPs in TOX3 and breast cancer risk: Evidence from 97275 cases and 128686 controls

L Zhang, X Long - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The associations of SNPs in TOX3 gene with breast cancer risk were investigated by some
Genome-wide association studies and epidemiological studies, but the study results were …