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Huyghe JR, Harrison TA, Bien SA, Hampel H, Figueiredo JC, Schmit SL, Conti DV, Chen S, Qu C, Lin Y, Barfield R, Baron JA, Cross AJ, Diergaarde B, Duggan D, Harlid S, Imaz L, Kang HM, Levine DM, Perduca V, Perez-Cornago A, Sakoda LC, Schumacher FR, Slattery ML, Toland AE, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, Agudo A, Albanes D, Alonso MH, Anderson K, Arnau-Collell C, Arndt V, Banbury BL, Bassik MC, Berndt SI, Bézieau S, Bishop DT, Boehm J, Boeing H, Boutron-Ruault MC, Brenner H, Brezina S, Buch S, Buchanan DD, Burnett-Hartman A, Caan BJ, Campbell PT, Carr PR, Castells A, Castellví-Bel S, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Curtis KR, de la Chapelle A, Easton DF, English DR, Feskens EJM, Gala M, Gallinger SJ, Gauderman WJ, Giles GG, Goodman PJ, Grady WM, Grove JS, Gsur A, Gunter MJ, Haile RW, Hampe J, Hoffmeister M, Hopper JL, Hsu WL, Huang WY, Hudson TJ, Jenab M, Jenkins MA, Joshi AD, Keku TO, Kooperberg C, Kühn T, Küry S, Le Marchand L, Lejbkowicz F, Li CI, Li L, Lieb W, Lindblom A, Lindor NM, Männistö S, Markowitz SD, Milne RL, Moreno L, Murphy N, Nassir R, Offit K, Ogino S, Panico S, Parfrey PS, Pearlman R, Pharoah PDP, Phipps AI, Platz EA, Potter JD, Prentice RL, Qi L, Raskin L, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Riboli E, Schafmayer C, Schoen RE, Seminara D, Song M, Su YR, Tangen CM, Thibodeau SN, Thomas DC, Trichopoulou A, Ulrich CM, Visvanathan K, Vodicka P, Vodickova L, Vymetalkova V, Weigl K, Weinstein SJ, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Wu AH, Abecasis GR, Nickerson DA, Scacheri PC, Kundaje A, Casey G, Gruber SB, Hsu L, Moreno V, Hayes RB, Newcomb PA, Peters U. Genetic architectures of proximal and distal colorectal cancer are partly distinct. Gut 2021; 70:1325-1334. [PMID: 33632709 PMCID: PMC8223655 DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-321534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Revised: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE An understanding of the etiologic heterogeneity of colorectal cancer (CRC) is critical for improving precision prevention, including individualized screening recommendations and the discovery of novel drug targets and repurposable drug candidates for chemoprevention. Known differences in molecular characteristics and environmental risk factors among tumors arising in different locations of the colorectum suggest partly distinct mechanisms of carcinogenesis. The extent to which the contribution of inherited genetic risk factors for CRC differs by anatomical subsite of the primary tumor has not been examined. DESIGN To identify new anatomical subsite-specific risk loci, we performed genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analyses including data of 48 214 CRC cases and 64 159 controls of European ancestry. We characterised effect heterogeneity at CRC risk loci using multinomial modelling. RESULTS We identified 13 loci that reached genome-wide significance (p<5×10-8) and that were not reported by previous GWASs for overall CRC risk. Multiple lines of evidence support candidate genes at several of these loci. We detected substantial heterogeneity between anatomical subsites. Just over half (61) of 109 known and new risk variants showed no evidence for heterogeneity. In contrast, 22 variants showed association with distal CRC (including rectal cancer), but no evidence for association or an attenuated association with proximal CRC. For two loci, there was strong evidence for effects confined to proximal colon cancer. CONCLUSION Genetic architectures of proximal and distal CRC are partly distinct. Studies of risk factors and mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and precision prevention strategies should take into consideration the anatomical subsite of the tumour.
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- Jeroen R Huyghe
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Translational Genomics Research Institute - An Affiliate of City of Hope, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Health Department of Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées MAP5 (UMR CNRS 8145), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Institut pour la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1018, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology - IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology - IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
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- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Institut pour la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1018, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
- Institut Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Centre Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- The Clalit Health Services, Personalized Genomic Service, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology, PopGen Biobank, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura'a University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Laboratory Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, MayoClinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Discipline of Genetics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
- City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology - IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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