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Liang X, Aouizerat BE, So‐Armah K, Cohen MH, Marconi VC, Xu K, Justice AC. DNA methylation-based telomere length is associated with HIV infection, physical frailty, cancer, and all-cause mortality. Aging Cell 2024; 23:e14174. [PMID: 38629454 PMCID: PMC11258465 DOI: 10.1111/acel.14174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Revised: 03/28/2024] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 07/21/2024] Open
Abstract
Telomere length (TL) is an important indicator of cellular aging. Shorter TL is associated with several age-related diseases including coronary heart disease, heart failure, diabetes, osteoporosis, and cancer. Recently, a DNA methylation-based TL (DNAmTL) estimator has been developed as an alternative method for directly measuring TL. In this study, we examined the association of DNAmTL with cancer prevalence and mortality risk among people with and without HIV in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study Biomarker Cohort (VACS, N = 1917) and Women's Interagency HIV Study Cohort (WIHS, N = 481). We profiled DNAm in whole blood (VACS) or in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (WIHS) using an array-based method. Cancer prevalence was estimated from electronic medical records and cancer registry data. The VACS Index was used as a measure of physiologic frailty. Models were adjusted for self-reported race and ethnicity, batch, smoking status, alcohol consumption, and five cell types (CD4, CD8, NK, B cell, and monocyte). We found that people with HIV had shorter average DNAmTL than those without HIV infection [beta = -0.25, 95% confidence interval (-0.32, -0.18), p = 1.48E-12]. Greater value of VACS Index [beta = -0.002 (-0.003, -0.001), p = 2.82E-05] and higher cancer prevalence [beta = -0.07 (-0.10, -0.03), p = 1.37E-04 without adjusting age] were associated with shortened DNAmTL. In addition, one kilobase decrease in DNAmTL was associated with a 40% increase in mortality risk [hazard ratio: 0.60 (0.44, 0.82), p = 1.42E-03]. In summary, HIV infection, physiologic frailty, and cancer are associated with shortening DNAmTL, contributing to an increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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- Xiaoyu Liang
- Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMichiganUSA
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- Translational Research Center, College of DentistryNew York UniversityNew YorkNew YorkUSA
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of DentistryNew York UniversityNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Boston University School of MedicineBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of MedicineStroger Hospital of Cook CountyChicagoIllinoisUSA
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- Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public HealthThe Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical CenterAtlantaGeorgiaUSA
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- Department of PsychiatryYale School of MedicineNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- VA Connecticut Healthcare SystemWest HavenConnecticutUSA
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- VA Connecticut Healthcare SystemWest HavenConnecticutUSA
- Department of Internal MedicineYale School of MedicineNew HavenConnecticutUSA
- Yale School of Public HealthNew HavenConnecticutUSA
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Pauleck S, Sinnott JA, Zheng YL, Gadalla SM, Viskochil R, Haaland B, Cawthon RM, Hoffmeister A, Hardikar S. Association of Telomere Length with Colorectal Cancer Risk and Prognosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:1159. [PMID: 36831502 PMCID: PMC9954736 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15041159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 02/04/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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(1) Background: Colorectal cancer risk and survival have previously been associated with telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes and tumor tissue. A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature was conducted. The PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases were searched through March 2022. (2) Methods: Relevant studies were identified through database searching following PRISMA guidelines. Risk estimates were extracted from identified studies; meta-analyses were conducted using random effects models. (3) Results: Fourteen studies were identified (eight on risk; six on survival) through systematic review. While no association was observed between circulating leukocyte telomere length and the risk of colorectal cancer [overall OR (95% CI) = 1.01 (0.82-1.24)], a worse survival for those with shorter telomeres in leukocytes and longer telomeres in tumor tissues was observed [Quartile1/Quartile2-4 overall HR (95% CI) = 1.41 (0.26-7.59) and 0.82 (0.69-0.98), respectively]. (4) Conclusions: Although there was no association with colorectal cancer risk, a poorer survival was observed among those with shorter leukocyte telomere length. Future larger studies evaluating a potentially non-linear relationship between telomeres and colorectal cancer are needed.
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- Svenja Pauleck
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Medical Department II, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
- Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Medical Department II, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Leipzig Medical Center, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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Pre-diagnostic telomere length and colorectal cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol 2022; 77:102100. [PMID: 35033923 PMCID: PMC8923959 DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2022.102100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2021] [Revised: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Progressive telomere shortening may be related to genomic instability and carcinogenesis. Prospective evidence relating telomere length (TL) with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk has been limited and inconsistent. METHODS We examined the association between pre-diagnostic peripheral blood leukocyte TL and CRC risk in two matched case-control studies nested within the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS). Relative leukocyte TL was measured using qPCR among 356 incident CRC cases and 801 controls (NHS: 186/465, HPFS: 170/336). RESULTS We did not find a significant association between pre-diagnostic TL and CRC risk [in all participants, multivariable-adjusted odds ratio (OR) (95% CI) for TL Quartile 1 (shortest) vs. Quartile 4 (longest) = 1.36 (0.85, 2.17), P-trend = 0.27; OR (95% CI) per 1 SD decrease in TL = 1.12 (0.92, 1.36)]. CONCLUSIONS Our prospective analysis did not support a significant association between pre-diagnostic leukocyte TL and CRC risk.
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Association Between Leukocyte Telomere Length and Colorectal Cancer Risk in the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Clin Transl Gastroenterol 2020; 10:1-9. [PMID: 31117113 PMCID: PMC6602767 DOI: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Telomeres and telomerase play important roles in maintaining chromosome integrity and genomic stability. To address a lack of consensus about the association between leukocyte telomere length and colorectal cancer, we investigated this association in the Singapore Chinese Health Study.
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Li X, Wu W, Giovannucci E, Stampfer MJ, Gao X, Han J. Cutaneous nevi and internal cancer risk: Results from two large prospective cohorts of US women. Int J Cancer 2020; 147:14-20. [PMID: 31593602 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.32703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Revised: 09/08/2019] [Accepted: 09/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Elevated cutaneous nevus number has been linked to longer telomeres. Recently, a large systematic Mendelian randomization study identified a significant positive association between telomere length and risk of cancer. Here, we hypothesized that higher nevus count, as a phenotypic marker of longer telomere, may be associated with increased risk of internal cancer, and prospectively examined the association between nevus count and total as well as site-specific cancer risk among participants in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS, 1986-2012) and the Nurses' Health Study 2 (NHS2, 1989-2013) using Cox proportional hazards models. During 3,900,264 person-years of follow-up, we documented a total of 23,004 internal cancer cases (15,484 in the NHS and 7,520 in the NHS2). Compared to participants who had no nevi, the multivariate hazard ratios of total cancer (excluding skin cancer) were 1.06 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03-1.09) for women with 1-5 nevi, 1.08 (95% CI, 1.03-1.15) for those who had 6-14 nevi and 1.19 (95% CI, 1.05-1.35) for those with 15 or more nevi (p trend <0.0001). Moreover, because nevus count has been associated with risk of breast cancer previously, we conducted a secondary analysis by excluding breast cancer from the outcomes of interest. The results were very similar to those of our primary analysis. For individual cancer, most of the associations with nevus count were positive but not statistically significant. In conclusion, we identified the number of cutaneous nevi as a phenotypic marker associated with internal cancer risk, which may be explained by telomere biology.
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- Xin Li
- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.,Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.,Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.,Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.,Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN
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Cornish AJ, Tomlinson IPM, Houlston RS. Mendelian randomisation: A powerful and inexpensive method for identifying and excluding non-genetic risk factors for colorectal cancer. Mol Aspects Med 2019; 69:41-47. [PMID: 30710596 PMCID: PMC6856712 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2019.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in economically developed countries and a major cause of cancer-related mortality. The importance of lifestyle and diet as major determinants of CRC risk is suggested by differences in CRC incidence between countries and in migration studies. Previous observational epidemiological studies have identified associations between modifiable environmental risk factors and CRC, but these studies can be susceptible to reverse causation and confounding, and their results can therefore conflict. Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis represents an approach complementary to conventional observational studies examining associations between exposures and disease. The MR strategy employs allelic variants as instrumental variables (IVs), which act as proxies for non-genetic exposures. These allelic variants are randomly assigned during meiosis and can therefore inform on life-long exposure, whilst not being subject to reverse causation. In previous studies MR frameworks have associated several modifiable factors with CRC risk, including adiposity, hyperlipidaemia, fatty acid profile and alcohol consumption. In this review we detail the use of MR to investigate and discover CRC risk factors, and its future applications.
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- Alex J Cornish
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
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- Cancer Genetics and Evolution Laboratory, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Department of Histopathology, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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Telomere length measurement in tumor and non‐tumor cells as a valuable prognostic for tumor progression. Cancer Genet 2019; 238:50-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergen.2019.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Revised: 07/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Peacock SD, Massey TE, Vanner SJ, King WD. Telomere length in the colon is related to colorectal adenoma prevalence. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0205697. [PMID: 30332457 PMCID: PMC6192597 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 09/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Telomere length has been associated with risk of several cancers. However, studies of the relationship between telomere length and colorectal cancer risk have been inconsistent. This study examined the relationship between telomere length in normal colon tissue and the prevalence of colorectal adenoma, a precursor to colorectal cancer. This nested case-control study consisted of 85 patients aged 40 to 65 undergoing a screening colonoscopy: 40 cases with adenoma(s) detected at colonoscopy and 45 controls with normal colonoscopy. During the colonoscopy, two pinch biopsies of healthy, normal appearing mucosa were obtained from the descending colon. Relative telomere length (rTL) was quantified in DNA extracted from colon mucosa using quantitative real-time PCR. Logistic regression was used to assess the relationship between telomere length and adenoma prevalence and estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals. rTL was significantly longer in colon tissue of individuals with adenomas compared to healthy individuals (p = 0.008). When rTL was categorized into quartiles according to the distribution of rTL among controls, individuals with the longest telomeres had increased odds of adenoma when compared to individuals with shortest telomeres (OR = 4.58, 95% CI: 1.19, 17.7). This study suggests that long telomeres in normal colon tissue are associated with increased colorectal cancer risk.
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- Sarah D. Peacock
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Gastrointestinal Disease Research Unit, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Pavanello S, Varesco L, Gismondi V, Bruzzi P, Bolognesi C. Leucocytes telomere length and breast cancer risk/ susceptibility: A case-control study. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0197522. [PMID: 29782524 PMCID: PMC5962062 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 05/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL-TL) was proposed as a biomarker of cancer risk. Recent scientific evidence suggested PBL-TL plays a diverse role in different cancers. Inconsistent results were obtained on PBL-TL in relation to breast cancer risk and specifically to the presence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. The aim of the present case-control study was to analyse the correlation between family history of breast cancer or presence of a BRCA mutation and PBL-TL in the hypothesis that TL is a modifier of cancer risk. METHODS PBL-TL was measured using the real-time quantitative PCR method in DNA for 142 cases and 239 controls. All the women enrolled were characterized for cancer family history. A subgroup of 48 women were classified for the presence of a BRCA mutation. PBL-TL were summarized as means and standard deviations, and compared by standard analysis of variance. A multivariable Generalised Linear Model was fitted to the data with PBL-TL as the dependent variable, case/control status and presence of a BRCA/VUS mutation as factors, and age in 4 strata as a covariate. RESULTS Age was significantly associated with decreasing PBL-TL in controls (p = 0.01), but not in BC cases. The telomere length is shorter in cases than in controls after adjusting for age. No effect on PBL-TL of BMI, smoke nor of the most common risk factors for breast cancer was observed. No association between PBL-TL and family history was detected both in BC cases and controls. In the multivariate model, no association was observed between BRCA mutation and decreased PBL-TL. A statistically significant interaction (p = 0.031) between case-control status and a BRCA-mutation/VUS was observed, but no effect was detected for the interaction of cancer status and BRCA or VUS. CONCLUSION Our study fails to provide support to the hypothesis that PBL-TL is associated with the risk of hereditary BC, or that is a marker of inherited mutations in BRCA genes.
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- Sofia Pavanello
- Unit of Occupational Medicine, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Unit of Hereditary Cancer Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
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- Unit of Hereditary Cancer Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
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- Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
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- Unit of Environmental Carcinogenesis Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
- * E-mail:
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Hardikar S, Burnett-Hartman AN, Phipps AI, Upton MP, Zhu LC, Newcomb PA. Telomere length differences between colorectal polyp subtypes: a colonoscopy-based case-control study. BMC Cancer 2018; 18:513. [PMID: 29720120 PMCID: PMC5932759 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-018-4426-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Short telomeres have been associated with increased risk of many cancers, particularly cancers of the gastrointestinal tract including esophagus and stomach. However, the association between telomere length (TL) and colorectal cancer and its precursors, colorectal polyps, is not clear. Methods We investigated the relationship between TL and risk of colorectal polyp subtypes in a colonoscopy-based study in western Washington. Participants were 35–79 year-old enrollees at an integrated health care system, who underwent a colonoscopy between 1998 and 2007 (n = 190), completed a self-administered questionnaire, provided blood samples, and were distinguished as having adenomas, serrated polyps, or as polyp-free controls through a standardized pathology review. Telomere length (T) relative to a single copy gene (S) was measured in circulating leukocytes from stored buffy coat samples using quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Multivariable polytomous logistic regression was used to compare case groups with polyp-free controls and other case groups; adjusted odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated. Results TL in the shortest tertile (T/S ratio < 0.58) was associated with increased risk of adenomas and serrated polyps [OR (95%CI) were 1.77(0.81–3.88) and 2.98(1.15–7.77), respectively). When evaluated by lesion severity within each pathway, short TL was more strongly associated with advanced adenomas and sessile serrated polyps [OR (95% CI) = 1.90(0.76–4.73) and 3.82(0.86–16.86), respectively], although the associations were not statistically significant. Conclusions Our results suggest that short TL may be associated with an increased risk of colorectal polyps in both the adenoma-carcinoma and serrated pathways. The risk was particularly notable for sessile serrated polyps, although the association was not statistically significant and sample size was limited.
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- Sheetal Hardikar
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, 2000 Circle of Hope Dr. Room 4711, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA. .,Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.,Kaiser Permanente, Colorado Institute for Health Research, Denver, CO, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Zöchmeister C, Brezina S, Hofer P, Baierl A, Bergmann MM, Bachleitner-Hofmann T, Karner-Hanusch J, Stift A, Gerger A, Leeb G, Mach K, Rachakonda S, Kumar R, Gsur A. Leukocyte telomere length throughout the continuum of colorectal carcinogenesis. Oncotarget 2018; 9:13582-13592. [PMID: 29568379 PMCID: PMC5862600 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.24431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Considering the high prevalence of colorectal cancer (CRC) and relatively high mortality there is strong interest in identification of clinically relevant biomarkers. Telomere shortening is supposed to contribute to genomic instability and crucially involved in process of carcinogenesis. Peripheral blood leukocyte (PBL) telomere length was previously investigated in several studies as potential biomarker for CRC but with controversial results. This prompted us to investigate relative PBL telomere length in association with different histological findings throughout the continuum of colorectal carcinogenesis in order to reflect the whole spectrum of putative CRC development in a large study involving 2011 individuals. The study based on the Colorectal Cancer Study of Austria (CORSA), including 384 CRC cases as well as age- and gender-matched 544 high-risk adenomas, 537 low-risk adenoma patients and 546 colonoscopy-negative controls. Relative expression of telomeric repeats and the single copy reference gene, albumin (T/S ratio) was determined using monochrome multiplex quantitative PCR (MMQPCR). Telomeres were found to be significantly longer in CRC patients compared to control subjects (P = 3.61x10-6). Yet, no significant differences in telomere length could be detected for high-risk (P = 0.05956) and low-risk colorectal adenoma patients (P = 0.05224). In addition, results presented in this manuscript highlight the impact of various epidemiological factors on PBL telomere length and its involvement in CRC. However, further large studies also including colorectal adenomas are necessary to confirm these results.
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- Cornelia Zöchmeister
- Medical University Vienna, Department of Medicine I, Institute of Cancer Research, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University Vienna, Department of Medicine I, Institute of Cancer Research, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University Vienna, Department of Medicine I, Institute of Cancer Research, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University Vienna, Department of Surgery, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University of Graz, Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Graz, Austria
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- Hospital Oberpullendorf, Burgenland, Austria
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- Hospital Oberpullendorf, Burgenland, Austria
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- German Cancer Research Center, Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Medical University Vienna, Department of Medicine I, Institute of Cancer Research, Vienna, Austria
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Haycock PC, Burgess S, Nounu A, Zheng J, Okoli GN, Bowden J, Wade KH, Timpson NJ, Evans DM, Willeit P, Aviv A, Gaunt TR, Hemani G, Mangino M, Ellis HP, Kurian KM, Pooley KA, Eeles RA, Lee JE, Fang S, Chen WV, Law MH, Bowdler LM, Iles MM, Yang Q, Worrall BB, Markus HS, Hung RJ, Amos CI, Spurdle AB, Thompson DJ, O'Mara TA, Wolpin B, Amundadottir L, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Trichopoulou A, Onland-Moret NC, Lund E, Duell EJ, Canzian F, Severi G, Overvad K, Gunter MJ, Tumino R, Svenson U, van Rij A, Baas AF, Bown MJ, Samani NJ, van t'Hof FNG, Tromp G, Jones GT, Kuivaniemi H, Elmore JR, Johansson M, Mckay J, Scelo G, Carreras-Torres R, Gaborieau V, Brennan P, Bracci PM, Neale RE, Olson SH, Gallinger S, Li D, Petersen GM, Risch HA, Klein AP, Han J, Abnet CC, Freedman ND, Taylor PR, Maris JM, Aben KK, Kiemeney LA, Vermeulen SH, Wiencke JK, Walsh KM, Wrensch M, Rice T, Turnbull C, Litchfield K, Paternoster L, Standl M, Abecasis GR, SanGiovanni JP, Li Y, Mijatovic V, Sapkota Y, Low SK, Zondervan KT, Montgomery GW, Nyholt DR, van Heel DA, Hunt K, Arking DE, Ashar FN, Sotoodehnia N, Woo D, Rosand J, Comeau ME, Brown WM, Silverman EK, Hokanson JE, Cho MH, Hui J, Ferreira MA, Thompson PJ, Morrison AC, Felix JF, Smith NL, Christiano AM, Petukhova L, Betz RC, Fan X, Zhang X, Zhu C, Langefeld CD, Thompson SD, Wang F, Lin X, Schwartz DA, Fingerlin T, Rotter JI, Cotch MF, Jensen RA, Munz M, Dommisch H, Schaefer AS, Han F, Ollila HM, Hillary RP, Albagha O, Ralston SH, Zeng C, Zheng W, Shu XO, Reis A, Uebe S, Hüffmeier U, Kawamura Y, Otowa T, Sasaki T, Hibberd ML, Davila S, Xie G, Siminovitch K, Bei JX, Zeng YX, Försti A, Chen B, Landi S, Franke A, Fischer A, Ellinghaus D, Flores C, Noth I, Ma SF, Foo JN, Liu J, Kim JW, Cox DG, Delattre O, Mirabeau O, Skibola CF, Tang CS, Garcia-Barcelo M, Chang KP, Su WH, Chang YS, Martin NG, Gordon S, Wade TD, Lee C, Kubo M, Cha PC, Nakamura Y, Levy D, Kimura M, Hwang SJ, Hunt S, Spector T, Soranzo N, Manichaikul AW, Barr RG, Kahali B, Speliotes E, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Cheng CY, Jonas JB, Wong TY, Fogh I, Lin K, Powell JF, Rice K, Relton CL, Martin RM, Davey Smith G. Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Study. JAMA Oncol 2017; 3:636-651. [PMID: 28241208 PMCID: PMC5638008 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.5945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
IMPORTANCE The causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility of observational studies to confounding and reverse causation. OBJECTIVE To conduct a Mendelian randomization study, using germline genetic variants as instrumental variables, to appraise the causal relevance of telomere length for risk of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases. DATA SOURCES Genomewide association studies (GWAS) published up to January 15, 2015. STUDY SELECTION GWAS of noncommunicable diseases that assayed germline genetic variation and did not select cohort or control participants on the basis of preexisting diseases. Of 163 GWAS of noncommunicable diseases identified, summary data from 103 were available. DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS Summary association statistics for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are strongly associated with telomere length in the general population. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for disease per standard deviation (SD) higher telomere length due to germline genetic variation. RESULTS Summary data were available for 35 cancers and 48 non-neoplastic diseases, corresponding to 420 081 cases (median cases, 2526 per disease) and 1 093 105 controls (median, 6789 per disease). Increased telomere length due to germline genetic variation was generally associated with increased risk for site-specific cancers. The strongest associations (ORs [95% CIs] per 1-SD change in genetically increased telomere length) were observed for glioma, 5.27 (3.15-8.81); serous low-malignant-potential ovarian cancer, 4.35 (2.39-7.94); lung adenocarcinoma, 3.19 (2.40-4.22); neuroblastoma, 2.98 (1.92-4.62); bladder cancer, 2.19 (1.32-3.66); melanoma, 1.87 (1.55-2.26); testicular cancer, 1.76 (1.02-3.04); kidney cancer, 1.55 (1.08-2.23); and endometrial cancer, 1.31 (1.07-1.61). Associations were stronger for rarer cancers and at tissue sites with lower rates of stem cell division. There was generally little evidence of association between genetically increased telomere length and risk of psychiatric, autoimmune, inflammatory, diabetic, and other non-neoplastic diseases, except for coronary heart disease (OR, 0.78 [95% CI, 0.67-0.90]), abdominal aortic aneurysm (OR, 0.63 [95% CI, 0.49-0.81]), celiac disease (OR, 0.42 [95% CI, 0.28-0.61]) and interstitial lung disease (OR, 0.09 [95% CI, 0.05-0.15]). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE It is likely that longer telomeres increase risk for several cancers but reduce risk for some non-neoplastic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases.
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- Philip C Haycock
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England4University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England5Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
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- Center of Human Development and Aging, Department of Pediatrics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London England8NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust, London, England
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- Brain Tumour Research Group, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Learning and Research Building, Southmead Hospital, University of Bristol
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- Brain Tumour Research Group, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Learning and Research Building, Southmead Hospital, University of Bristol
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
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- The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, England
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Department of Clinical Applications & Support, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Statistical Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, England
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Departments of Neurology and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada21Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Genetics and Computational Biology Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
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- Genetics and Computational Biology Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece28WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Sud, UVSQ, CESP, INSERM, Villejuif, France34Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France35Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF), Torino, Italy36Cancer Council Victoria and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, England
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- Cancer Registry, Azienda Ospedaliera "Civile M.P. Arezzo," Ragusa, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
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- Surgery Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and the NIHR Leicester, Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, England
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and the NIHR Leicester, Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, England
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa46The Sigfried and Janet Weis Center for Research, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
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- Surgery Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa46The Sigfried and Janet Weis Center for Research, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Departments of Oncology, Pathology and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis57Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands61Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California63Institute of Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California63Institute of Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California63Institute of Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, England64William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University, London, England
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics and Biochemistry, Section on Nutritional Neuroscience, Bethesda, Maryland69Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, and Medical Centre, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Life and Reproduction Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Laboratory of Statistical Analysis, Centre for Integrative Medical Sciences, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Yokohama, Japan
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- Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology Unit, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, England74Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia75Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, England
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, England
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurology, Center for Human Genetic Research, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Busselton Population Medical Research Institute Inc, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia85PathWest Laboratory Medicine of Western Australia, Perth, Australia86School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia87School of Population Health, University of WA, Perth, Australia
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- The Lung Health Clinic and Institute for Respiratory Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Departments of Dermatology and Genetics & Development, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Departments of Dermatology and Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Dermatology & Department of Dermatology, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Institute of Dermatology & Department of Dermatology, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Institute of Dermatology & Department of Dermatology, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora
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- Department of Biomedical Research, National Jewish Health Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California101Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
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- Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, Intramural Research Program, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle104Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Periodontology and Synoptic Dentistry, Center for Dental and Craniofacial Sciences, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany106Institute for Integrative and Experimental Genomics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Periodontology and Synoptic Dentistry, Center for Dental and Craniofacial Sciences, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Periodontology and Synoptic Dentistry, Center for Dental and Craniofacial Sciences, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Stanford University, Center for Sleep Sciences, Palo Alto, California
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- Stanford University, Center for Sleep Sciences, Palo Alto, California
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- Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar110Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan115Graduate School of Clinical Psychology, Teikyo Heisei University Major of Professional Clinical Psychology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada119Departments of Medicine, Immunology, Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada119Departments of Medicine, Immunology, Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China
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- Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China121Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany123Center for Primary Health Care Research, Clinical Research Center, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany126Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Research Unit, Hospital Universitario N.S. de Candelaria, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain128CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore
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- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan, University School of Medicine, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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- Cancer Research Center of Lyon, INSERM U1052, Lyon, France
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- Department of Surgery, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Surgery, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Lin-Kou, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Lin-Kou, Taoyuan, Taiwan137Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Molecular Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Molecular Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
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- School of Systems Biomedical Science, Soongsil University, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Brain Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kusunoki-chou, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan
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- Center for Personalized Therapeutics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- The NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, Population Sciences Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Center of Human Development and Aging, Department of Pediatrics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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- The NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, Population Sciences Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London England
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton Cambridge, England
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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- Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore152Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore153Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China155Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore152Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore153Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, England
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, England
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, England
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England158University of Bristol/University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust National Institute for Health Research Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit, Bristol, England
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England2School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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Wan S, Hann HW, Ye Z, Hann RS, Lai Y, Wang C, Li L, Myers RE, Li B, Xing J, Yang H. Prospective and longitudinal evaluations of telomere length of circulating DNA as a risk predictor of hepatocellular carcinoma in HBV patients. Carcinogenesis 2017; 38:439-446. [PMID: 28334112 PMCID: PMC5963496 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgx021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2016] [Revised: 02/01/2017] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Prospective and longitudinal epidemiological evidence is needed to assess the association between telomere length and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In 323 cancer-free Korean-American HBV patients with 1-year exclusion window (followed for >1 year and did not develop HCC within 1 year), we measured the relative telomere length (RTL) in baseline serum DNAs and conducted extensive prospective and longitudinal analyses to assess RTL-HCC relationship. We found that long baseline RTL conferred an increased HCC risk compared to short RTL [hazard ratio (HR) = 4.93, P = 0.0005). The association remained prominent when the analysis was restricted to patients with a more stringent 5-year exclusion window (HR = 7.51, P = 0.012), indicating that the association was unlikely due to including undetected HCC patients in the cohort, thus minimizing the reverse-causation limitation in most retrospective studies. Adding baseline RTL to demographic variables increased the discrimination accuracy of the time-dependent receiver operating characteristic analysis from 0.769 to 0.868 (P = 1.0 × 10-5). In a nested longitudinal subcohort of 16 matched cases-control pairs, using a mixed effects model, we observed a trend of increased RTL in cases and decreased RTL in controls along 5 years of follow-up, with a significant interaction of case/control status with time (P for interaction=0.002) and confirmed the association between long RTL and HCC risk [odds ratio [OR] = 3.63, P = 0.016]. In summary, serum DNA RTL may be a novel non-invasive prospective marker of HBV-related HCC. Independent studies are necessary to validate and generalize this finding in diverse populations and assess the clinical applicability of RTL in HCC prediction.
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- Shaogui Wan
- Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
- Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical College, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, China
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- Department of Medicine, Liver Disease Prevention Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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- Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Liver Disease Prevention Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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- Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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- Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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- Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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- Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA and
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- State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Experimental Teaching Center, College of Basic Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- Division of Population Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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Naing C, Aung K, Lai PK, Mak JW. Association between telomere length and the risk of colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis of observational studies. BMC Cancer 2017; 17:24. [PMID: 28056862 PMCID: PMC5216529 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-016-2997-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Human chromosomes are capped and stabilized by telomeres. Telomere length regulates a 'cellular mitotic clock' that defines the number of cell divisions and hence, cellular life span. This study aimed to synthesize the evidence on the association between peripheral blood leucocytes (PBL) telomere length and the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). METHODS We searched relevant studies in electronic databases. When two or more observational studies reported the same outcome measures, we performed pooled analysis. All the analyses were performed on PBL using PCR. The odds ratio (OR) and its 95% confidence interval (CI) were used to assess the strength of association. RESULTS Seven studies (with 8 datasets) were included in this meta-analysis; 3 prospective studies, 3 retrospective studies and 1 study with a separate prospective and retrospective designs. The pooled analysis of 4 prospective studies (summary OR 1.01, 95% CI: 0.77-1.34, I 2:30%) and 4 retrospective studies (summary OR 1.65, 95% CI: 0.96-2.83, I 2:96%) showed no relationship between PBL telomere length and the CRC risk. A subgroup analysis of 2 prospective studies exclusively on females also showed no association between PBL telomere length and the CRC risk (summary OR, 1.17, 95% CI:0.72-1.91, I 2:57%). CONCLUSION The current analysis is insufficient to provide evidence on the relationship between PBL telomere length and the risk of CRC. Findings suggest that there may be a complex relationship between PBL telomere length and the CRC risk or discrepancy between genetics, age of patients and clinical studies. Future well powered, large prospective studies on the relationship between telomere length and the risk of CRC, and the investigations of the biologic mechanisms are recommended.
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- Cho Naing
- School of Postgraduate Studies, International Medical University (IMU), Kuala Lumpur, 57000, Malaysia.
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- School of Medicine, International Medical University (IMU), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- School of Postgraduate Studies, International Medical University (IMU), Kuala Lumpur, 57000, Malaysia
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- School of Postgraduate Studies, International Medical University (IMU), Kuala Lumpur, 57000, Malaysia
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Ribero S, Mangino M, Bataille V. Skin phenotypes can offer some insight about the association between telomere length and cancer susceptibility. Med Hypotheses 2016; 97:7-10. [PMID: 27876133 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2016.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2016] [Revised: 10/03/2016] [Accepted: 10/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The role of telomere biology in cancer has been studied for a wide variety of different cancers but the association with telomere length has been controversial. This is because some cancers have been found to be associated with longer telomeres in circulating white cells whilst other cancer types are more common in individuals with shorter telomeres. Hence, there has been some skepticism as to whether telomere length may be helpful in estimating cancer risk. For melanoma, however, results have been fairly consistent showing that longer telomeres are associated with an increased risk. This link was first discovered because of a link between longer telomeres and a high number of naevi. In contrast, for cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas, the relationship is reversed with higher risk in individuals with shorter telomeres. Differences in skin phenotypes with the presence of high number of naevi versus photoageing with solar elastosis and solar keratoses have already been valuable for dermatologists as the former phenotype is associated with melanoma whilst the latter is more common in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. The hypothesis is that the differences in cutaneous phenotypes already observed by dermatologists for skin cancers may, in fact, be useful as well for cancer prediction in general as it may reflect underlying telomere biology. This manuscript will address the evidence for links between telomere biology, skin phenotypes and cancer risk.
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- S Ribero
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, UK; Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, UK; Department of Dermatology, West Herts NHS Trust, Herts, UK
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Nersisyan L. Integration of Telomere Length Dynamics into Systems Biology Framework: A Review. GENE REGULATION AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2016; 10:35-42. [PMID: 27346946 PMCID: PMC4912229 DOI: 10.4137/grsb.s39836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2016] [Revised: 05/11/2016] [Accepted: 05/21/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Telomere length dynamics plays a crucial role in regulation of cellular processes and cell fate. In contrast to epidemiological studies revealing the association of telomere length with age, age-related diseases, and cancers, the role of telomeres in regulation of transcriptome and epigenome and the role of genomic variations in telomere lengthening are not extensively analyzed. This is explained by the fact that experimental assays for telomere length measurement are resource consuming, and there are very few studies where high-throughput genomics, transcriptomics, and/or epigenomics experiments have been coupled with telomere length measurements. Recent development of computational approaches for assessment of telomere length from whole genome sequencing data pave a new perspective on integration of telomeres into high-throughput systems biology analysis framework. Herein, we review existing methodologies for telomere length measurement and compare them to computational approaches, as well as discuss their applications in large-scale studies on telomere length dynamics.
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- Lilit Nersisyan
- Group of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences RA, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
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Zhang C, Doherty JA, Burgess S, Hung RJ, Lindström S, Kraft P, Gong J, Amos CI, Sellers TA, Monteiro ANA, Chenevix-Trench G, Bickeböller H, Risch A, Brennan P, Mckay JD, Houlston RS, Landi MT, Timofeeva MN, Wang Y, Heinrich J, Kote-Jarai Z, Eeles RA, Muir K, Wiklund F, Grönberg H, Berndt SI, Chanock SJ, Schumacher F, Haiman CA, Henderson BE, Amin Al Olama A, Andrulis IL, Hopper JL, Chang-Claude J, John EM, Malone KE, Gammon MD, Ursin G, Whittemore AS, Hunter DJ, Gruber SB, Knight JA, Hou L, Le Marchand L, Newcomb PA, Hudson TJ, Chan AT, Li L, Woods MO, Ahsan H, Pierce BL. Genetic determinants of telomere length and risk of common cancers: a Mendelian randomization study. Hum Mol Genet 2015; 24:5356-66. [PMID: 26138067 PMCID: PMC4550826 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddv252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2014] [Revised: 06/03/2015] [Accepted: 06/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Epidemiological studies have reported inconsistent associations between telomere length (TL) and risk for various cancers. These inconsistencies are likely attributable, in part, to biases that arise due to post-diagnostic and post-treatment TL measurement. To avoid such biases, we used a Mendelian randomization approach and estimated associations between nine TL-associated SNPs and risk for five common cancer types (breast, lung, colorectal, ovarian and prostate cancer, including subtypes) using data on 51 725 cases and 62 035 controls. We then used an inverse-variance weighted average of the SNP-specific associations to estimate the association between a genetic score representing long TL and cancer risk. The long TL genetic score was significantly associated with increased risk of lung adenocarcinoma (P = 6.3 × 10(-15)), even after exclusion of a SNP residing in a known lung cancer susceptibility region (TERT-CLPTM1L) P = 6.6 × 10(-6)). Under Mendelian randomization assumptions, the association estimate [odds ratio (OR) = 2.78] is interpreted as the OR for lung adenocarcinoma corresponding to a 1000 bp increase in TL. The weighted TL SNP score was not associated with other cancer types or subtypes. Our finding that genetic determinants of long TL increase lung adenocarcinoma risk avoids issues with reverse causality and residual confounding that arise in observational studies of TL and disease risk. Under Mendelian randomization assumptions, our finding suggests that longer TL increases lung adenocarcinoma risk. However, caution regarding this causal interpretation is warranted in light of the potential issue of pleiotropy, and a more general interpretation is that SNPs influencing telomere biology are also implicated in lung adenocarcinoma risk.
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, DKFZ, German Cancer Research Center, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK, Royal Marsden National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, London and Sutton, UK
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- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Molecular Genetics/Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, CA, USA, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Kreftregisteret, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Ontario Cancer Genetics Network, Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and
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- Discipline of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Department of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA,
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Hosnijeh FS, Matullo G, Russo A, Guarrera S, Modica F, Nieters A, Overvad K, Guldberg P, Tjønneland A, Canzian F, Boeing H, Aleksandrova K, Trichopoulou A, Lagiou P, Trichopoulos D, Tagliabue G, Tumino R, Panico S, Palli D, Olsen KS, Weiderpass E, Dorronsoro M, Ardanaz E, Chirlaque MD, Sánchez MJ, Quirós JR, Venceslá A, Melin B, Johansson AS, Nilsson P, Borgquist S, Peeters PH, Onland-Moret NC, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Travis RC, Khaw KT, Wareham N, Brennan P, Ferrari P, Gunter MJ, Vineis P, Vermeulen R. Prediagnostic telomere length and risk of B-cell lymphoma-Results from the EPIC cohort study. Int J Cancer 2014; 135:2910-7. [PMID: 24771230 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2014] [Accepted: 03/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Recent epidemiological investigations have reported on the association between telomere length (TL) and a number of malignancies, including B-cell lymphoma (BCL). The reported results for BCLs are however inconsistent. We carried out a nested case-control study to determine whether TL is associated with future risk of BCL. Using quantitative polymerase chain reaction, the relative TL (i.e. the ratio of telomere repeat copy number to single gene copy number) was measured in mononuclear cell DNA of prediagnostic peripheral blood samples of 464 lymphoma cases and 464 matched controls (median time between blood collection and diagnosis, 4.6 years). Conditional logistic regression was used to analyze the association between TL and the risk of developing lymphoma and histologic subtypes. TL was significantly longer in cases compared to controls (p = 0.01). Multivariable models showed a significantly increased risk of BCL [odds ratio (OR) = 1.66, 1.80 and 3.20 for quartiles 2-4, respectively, p-trend = 0.001], diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) (OR = 1.20, 2.48 and 2.36 for quartiles 2-4, respectively, p-trend = 0.03) and follicular lymphoma (FL) (OR = 1.39, 1.90 and 2.69 for quartiles 2-4, respectively, p-trend = 0.02) with increasing TL. This study suggests an association between longer leucocyte TL and increased risk of BCL which was most pronounced for DLBCL and FL.
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- Fatemeh Saberi Hosnijeh
- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
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Baichoo E, Boardman LA. Toward a molecular classification of colorectal cancer: the role of telomere length. Front Oncol 2014; 4:158. [PMID: 24995160 PMCID: PMC4061573 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2014.00158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2014] [Accepted: 06/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Telomere biology is central to the maintenance of genomic stability and telomeric dysfunction is thought to be an early stage in carcinogenesis. Reports of telomere lengths and their ascribed colorectal cancer (CRC) risks have been discordant, with both very short and very long telomeres implicated. Nevertheless, telomeres appear to play a very central role in cancer initiation. Telomere length changes also appear to impact disease burden, progression, and overall survival. This review covers contemporary views on telomere biology and CRC risk, with a brief overview of analytical methods employed in telomere measurement. We conclude with arguments in favor of including telomere assessment in the molecular profiling of CRCs.
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- Esha Baichoo
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic , Rochester, MN , USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic , Rochester, MN , USA
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Pooley KA, McGuffog L, Barrowdale D, Frost D, Ellis SD, Fineberg E, Platte R, Izatt L, Adlard J, Bardwell J, Brewer C, Cole T, Cook J, Davidson R, Donaldson A, Dorkins H, Douglas F, Eason J, Houghton C, Kennedy MJ, McCann E, Miedzybrodzka Z, Murray A, Porteous ME, Rogers MT, Side LE, Tischkowitz M, Walker L, Hodgson S, Eccles DM, Morrison PJ, Evans DG, Eeles RA, Antoniou AC, Easton DF, Dunning AM. Lymphocyte telomere length is long in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers regardless of cancer-affected status. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2014; 23:1018-24. [PMID: 24642354 PMCID: PMC4266102 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-13-0635-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Telomere length has been linked to risk of common diseases, including cancer, and has previously been proposed as a biomarker for cancer risk. Germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations predispose to breast, ovarian, and other cancer types. METHODS We investigated telomere length in BRCA mutation carriers and their non-carrier relatives and further examined whether telomere length is a modifier of cancer risk in mutation carriers. We measured mean telomere length in DNA extracted from whole blood using high-throughput quantitative PCR. Participants were from the EMBRACE study in United Kingdom and Eire (n = 4,822) and comprised BRCA1 (n = 1,628) and BRCA2 (n = 1,506) mutation carriers and their non-carrier relatives (n = 1,688). RESULTS We find no significant evidence that mean telomere length is associated with breast or ovarian cancer risk in BRCA mutation carriers. However, we find mutation carriers to have longer mean telomere length than their non-carrier relatives (all carriers vs. non-carriers, Ptrend = 0.0018), particularly in families with BRCA2 mutations (BRCA2 mutation carriers vs. all non-carriers, Ptrend = 0.0016). CONCLUSIONS Our findings lend little support to the hypothesis that short mean telomere length predisposes to cancer. Conversely, our main and unexpected finding is that BRCA mutation carriers (regardless of cancer status) have longer telomeres than their non-mutation carrier, non-cancer-affected relatives. The longer telomere length in BRCA2 mutation carriers is consistent with its role in DNA damage response. Overall, it seems that increased telomere length may be a consequence of these mutations, but is not itself directly related to the increased cancer risk in carriers. IMPACT The finding that mutation carriers have longer mean telomere lengths than their non-carrier relatives is unexpected but biologically plausible and could open up new lines of research into the functions of the BRCA proteins. To our knowledge, this is the largest study of telomere length in BRCA mutation carriers and their relatives. The null cancer-risk association supports recent large prospective studies of breast and ovarian cancer and indicates that mean telomere length would not be a useful biomarker in these cancers. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 23(6); 1018-24. ©2014 AACR.
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- Karen A Pooley
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Lesley McGuffog
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Daniel Barrowdale
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Debra Frost
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Steve D Ellis
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Elena Fineberg
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Radka Platte
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Louise Izatt
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Julian Adlard
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Julian Bardwell
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Carole Brewer
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Trevor Cole
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Jackie Cook
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Rosemarie Davidson
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Alan Donaldson
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Huw Dorkins
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Fiona Douglas
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Jacqueline Eason
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Catherine Houghton
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - M John Kennedy
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Emma McCann
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Mary E Porteous
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
| | - Mark T Rogers
- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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- Authors' Affiliations: Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Department of Epigenetics, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; South East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Guy's Hospital; North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; Clinical Genetics Department, St. Georges Hospital, University of London, London; Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, Leeds; Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham;Sheffield Clinical Genetics Service, Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow; South West Regional Genetics Service, Bristol; North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harrow; Institute of Human Genetics, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne; Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire & Merseyside Clinical Genetics Service, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; All Wales Medical Genetics Service, Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; North of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Swansea; South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Service, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; All Wales Medical Genetics Services, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess A
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Boardman LA, Litzelman K, Seo S, Johnson RA, Vanderboom RJ, Kimmel GW, Cunningham JM, Gangnon RE, Engelman CD, Riegert-Johnson DL, Potter J, Haile R, Buchanan D, Jenkins MA, Rider DN, Thibodeau SN, Petersen GM, Skinner HG. The association of telomere length with colorectal cancer differs by the age of cancer onset. Clin Transl Gastroenterol 2014; 5:e52. [PMID: 24598784 PMCID: PMC3972691 DOI: 10.1038/ctg.2014.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2013] [Revised: 01/03/2014] [Accepted: 01/08/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES: Telomeres are nucleoprotein structures that cap the end of chromosomes and shorten with sequential cell divisions in normal aging. Short telomeres are also implicated in the incidence of many cancers, but the evidence is not conclusive for colorectal cancer (CRC). Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the association of CRC and telomere length. METHODS: In this case–control study, we measured relative telomere length from peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) DNA with quantitative PCR in 598 CRC patients and 2,212 healthy controls. RESULTS: Multivariate analysis indicated that telomere length was associated with risk for CRC, and this association varied in an age-related manner; younger individuals (≤50 years of age) with longer telomeres (80–99 percentiles) had a 2–6 times higher risk of CRC, while older individuals (>50 years of age) with shortened telomeres (1–10 percentiles) had 2–12 times the risk for CRC. The risk for CRC varies with extremes in telomere length in an age-associated manner. CONCLUSIONS: Younger individuals with longer telomeres or older individuals with shorter telomeres are at higher risk for CRC. These findings indicate that the association of PBL telomere length varies according to the age of cancer onset and that CRC is likely associated with at minimum two different mechanisms of telomere dynamics.
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- Lisa A Boardman
- Department of Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- National Radiation Emergency Medical Center, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Stanford School of Medicine, The Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, California, USA
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Clive Berghofer Cancer Research Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Longer telomeres are associated with cancer risk in MMR-proficient hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer. PLoS One 2014; 9:e86063. [PMID: 24498269 PMCID: PMC3911901 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2013] [Accepted: 12/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Aberrant telomere length measured in blood has been associated with increased risk of several cancer types. In the field of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (CRC), and more particularly in Lynch syndrome, caused by germline mutations in the mismatch repair (MMR) genes, we recently found that cancer-affected MMR gene mutation carriers had shorter telomeres and more pronounced shortening of telomere length with age than controls and unaffected MMR gene mutation carriers. Here we evaluate blood telomere length in MMR-proficient hereditary non-polyposis CRC, i.e. familial CRC type X (fCRC-X). A total of 57 cancer-affected and 57 cancer-free individuals from 34 Amsterdam-positive fCRC-X families were analyzed and compared to the data previously published on 144 cancer-affected and 100 cancer-free MMR gene mutation carriers, and 234 controls. Relative telomere length was measured using a monochrome multiplex quantitative PCR method, following strict measures to avoid sources of bias and adjusting by age. Despite the retrospective nature of our study, the results show that longer telomeres associate with cancer risk in fCRC-X, thus identifying different patterns of telomere length according to the status of the MMR system.
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Telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes is associated with risk of colorectal cancer in Chinese population. PLoS One 2014; 9:e88135. [PMID: 24498432 PMCID: PMC3912164 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2013] [Accepted: 01/05/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background Human telomeres, tandem repeats of TTAGGG nucleotides at the ends of chromosomes, are essential for maintaining genomic integrity and stability. Results of previous epidemiologic studies about the association of telomere length with risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) have been conflicting. Methods A case-control study was conducted in a Han population in Wuhan, central China. The relative telomere length (RTL) was measured in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 628 CRC cases and 1,256 age and sex frequency matched cancer-free controls. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated using unconditional logistic regression models to evaluate the association between RTL and CRC risk. Results Using median RTL in the controls as the cutoff, individuals with shorter RTL were associated with a significantly increased risk of CRC (adjusted OR = 1.27, 95%CI: 1.05–1.55). When participants were further categorized into 3 and 4 groups according to the tertile and quartile RTL values of controls, significant relationships were still observed between shorter RTL and increased CRC risk (OR per tertile = 1.13, 95%CI: 1.00–1.28, Ptrend = 0.045; OR per quartile = 1.12, 95%CI: 1.03–1.23, Ptrend = 0.012). In stratified analyses, significant association between shorter RTL and increased CRC risk was found in females, individuals younger than 60 years old, never smokers and never drinkers. Conclusions This study suggested that short telomere length in PBLs was significantly associated with an increased risk of CRC in Chinese Han population. Further validation in large prospective studies and investigation of the biologic mechanisms are warranted.
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Pooley KA, Bojesen SE, Weischer M, Nielsen SF, Thompson D, Amin Al Olama A, Michailidou K, Tyrer JP, Benlloch S, Brown J, Audley T, Luben R, Khaw KT, Neal DE, Hamdy FC, Donovan JL, Kote-Jarai Z, Baynes C, Shah M, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Dennis J, Dicks E, Yang R, Rudolph A, Schildkraut J, Chang-Claude J, Burwinkel B, Chenevix-Trench G, Pharoah PDP, Berchuck A, Eeles RA, Easton DF, Dunning AM, Nordestgaard BG. A genome-wide association scan (GWAS) for mean telomere length within the COGS project: identified loci show little association with hormone-related cancer risk. Hum Mol Genet 2013; 22:5056-64. [PMID: 23900074 PMCID: PMC3836481 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2013] [Revised: 07/12/2013] [Accepted: 07/23/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Mean telomere length (TL) in blood cells is heritable and has been reported to be associated with risks of several diseases, including cancer. We conducted a meta-analysis of three GWAS for TL (total n=2240) and selected 1629 variants for replication via the "iCOGS" custom genotyping array. All ∼200 000 iCOGS variants were analysed with TL, and those displaying associations in healthy controls (n = 15 065) were further tested in breast cancer cases (n = 11 024). We found a novel TL association (Ptrend < 4 × 10(-10)) at 3p14.4 close to PXK and evidence (Ptrend < 7 × 10(-7)) for TL loci at 6p22.1 (ZNF311) and 20q11.2 (BCL2L1). We additionally confirmed (Ptrend < 5 × 10(-14)) the previously reported loci at 3q26.2 (TERC), 5p15.3 (TERT) and 10q24.3 (OBFC1) and found supportive evidence (Ptrend < 5 × 10(-4)) for the published loci at 2p16.2 (ACYP2), 4q32.2 (NAF1) and 20q13.3 (RTEL1). SNPs tagging these loci explain TL differences of up to 731 bp (corresponding to 18% of total TL in healthy individuals), however, they display little direct evidence for association with breast, ovarian or prostate cancer risks.
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- Karen A. Pooley
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Copenhagen General Population Study and
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen General Population Study and
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen General Population Study and
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Surgical Oncology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Box 279, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and
- Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Bristol, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology and
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology and
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology and
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine and
- Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control Research Program, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Molecular Epidemiology Group and
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology and
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Oncogenetics Team, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea, London, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology and
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- Copenhagen General Population Study and
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Basu N, Skinner HG, Litzelman K, Vanderboom R, Baichoo E, Boardman LA. Telomeres and telomere dynamics: relevance to cancers of the GI tract. Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2013; 7:733-48. [PMID: 24161135 PMCID: PMC3892561 DOI: 10.1586/17474124.2013.848790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Aberrations in telomere length and telomere maintenance contribute to cancer development. In this article, we review the basic principles of telomere length in normal and tumor tissue and the presence of the two main telomere maintenance pathways as they pertain to gastrointestinal tract cancer. Peripheral blood telomeres are shorter in patients with many types of gastrointestinal tract cancers. Telomere length in tumor DNA also appears to shorten early in cancer development. Tumor telomere shortening is often accompanied by telomerase activation to protect genetically damaged DNA from normal cell senescence or apoptosis, allowing immortalized but damaged DNA to persist. Alternative lengthening of telomeres is another mechanism used by cancer to maintain telomere length in cancer cells. Telomerase and alternative lengthening of telomeres activators and inhibitors may become important chemopreventive or chemotherapeutic agents as our understanding of telomere biology, specific telomere-related phenotypes and its relationship to carcinogenesis increases.
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- Nivedita Basu
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 Tel: 507-266-4338; Fax: 507-266-0350
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- Department of Population Health Sciences School of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53726 Tel: 608-265-4654
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- Department of Population Health Sciences School of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53726 Tel: 608-265-4654
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 Tel: 507-266-4338; Fax: 507-266-0350
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 Tel: 507-266-4338; Fax: 507-266-0350
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 Tel: 507-266-4338; Fax: 507-266-0350
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Cunningham JM, Johnson RA, Litzelman K, Skinner HG, Seo S, Engelman CD, Vanderboom RJ, Kimmel GW, Gangnon RE, Riegert-Johnson DL, Baron JA, Potter JD, Haile R, Buchanan DD, Jenkins MA, Rider DN, Thibodeau SN, Petersen GM, Boardman LA. Telomere length varies by DNA extraction method: implications for epidemiologic research. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2013; 22:2047-54. [PMID: 24019396 PMCID: PMC3827976 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-13-0409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Both shorter and longer telomeres in peripheral blood leukocyte (PBL) DNA have been associated with cancer risk. However, associations remain inconsistent across studies of the same cancer type. This study compares DNA preparation methods to determine telomere length from patients with colorectal cancer. METHODS We examined PBL relative telomere length (RTL) measured by quantitative PCR (qPCR) in 1,033 patients with colorectal cancer and 2,952 healthy controls. DNA was extracted with phenol/chloroform, PureGene, or QIAamp. RESULTS We observed differences in RTL depending on DNA extraction method (P < 0.001). Phenol/chloroform-extracted DNA had a mean RTL (T/S ratio) of 0.78 (range 0.01-6.54) compared with PureGene-extracted DNA (mean RTL of 0.75; range 0.00-12.33). DNA extracted by QIAamp yielded a mean RTL of 0.38 (range 0.02-3.69). We subsequently compared RTL measured by qPCR from an independent set of 20 colorectal cancer cases and 24 normal controls in PBL DNA extracted by each of the three extraction methods. The range of RTL measured by qPCR from QIAamp-extracted DNA (0.17-0.58) was less than from either PureGene or phenol/chloroform (ranges, 0.04-2.67 and 0.32-2.81, respectively). CONCLUSIONS RTL measured by qPCR from QIAamp-extracted DNA was less than from either PureGene or phenol/chloroform (P < 0.001). IMPACT Differences in DNA extraction method may contribute to the discrepancies between studies seeking to find an association between the risk of cancer or other diseases and RTL.
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- Julie M. Cunningham
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College
of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College
of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and
Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and
Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, School of
Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and
Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, School of
Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Cancer Prevention Program, Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- The Stanford Cancer Institute and Stanford School of Medicine,
Department of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Clive Berghofer Cancer
Research Centre, Queensland 4006 Australia
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- Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne,
Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, School of
Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College
of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of
Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine,
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Schürks M, Buring J, Dushkes R, Gaziano JM, Zee RYL, Kurth T. Telomere length and Parkinson's disease in men: a nested case-control study. Eur J Neurol 2013; 21:93-9. [PMID: 24010387 DOI: 10.1111/ene.12252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2013] [Accepted: 07/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Telomere shortening has been implicated in neurodegenerative disorders. However, available data on the association between telomere length and Parkinson's disease (PD) are inconclusive. METHODS A nested case-control design was used amongst men participating in the prospective Physicians' Health Study. A large proportion of participants provided blood samples in 1997 and they were followed through 2010. Men with self-reported PD were age-matched to controls in a 1:2 ratio. Quantitative PCR was used to determine the telomere repeat copy number to single gene copy number ratio (TSR) in genomic DNA extracted from peripheral blood leukocytes. TSR was used as a measure for relative telomere length (RTL) in our analyses. Conditional logistic regression was used to determine the risk of PD associated with RTL. RESULTS Data on RTL were available from 408 cases and 809 controls. Median TSR was shorter in controls than in cases (47.7 vs. 50.2; P = 0.02). The age-adjusted odds ratio (OR) for PD was 0.66 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.46-0.95; Ptrend over quartiles 0.02] comparing the lowest to the highest quartile. The pattern of association was unchanged when comparing RTL below versus above the median (age-adjusted OR 0.75; 95% CI 0.59-0.96). Associations were similar after additional adjustment for many covariates. CONCLUSION Contrary to what was expected, in this large nested case-control study amongst men shorter telomeres were associated with reduced PD risk. Future research on the nature of this counterintuitive association is warranted.
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- M Schürks
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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Axelrad MD, Budagov T, Atzmon G. Telomere length and telomerase activity; a Yin and Yang of cell senescence. J Vis Exp 2013:e50246. [PMID: 23728273 DOI: 10.3791/50246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Telomeres are repeating DNA sequences at the tip ends of the chromosomes that are diverse in length and in humans can reach a length of 15,000 base pairs. The telomere serves as a bioprotective mechanism of chromosome attrition at each cell division. At a certain length, telomeres become too short to allow replication, a process that may lead to chromosome instability or cell death. Telomere length is regulated by two opposing mechanisms: attrition and elongation. Attrition occurs as each cell divides. In contrast, elongation is partially modulated by the enzyme telomerase, which adds repeating sequences to the ends of the chromosomes. In this way, telomerase could possibly reverse an aging mechanism and rejuvenates cell viability. These are crucial elements in maintaining cell life and are used to assess cellular aging. In this manuscript we will describe an accurate, short, sophisticated and cheap method to assess telomere length in multiple tissues and species. This method takes advantage of two key elements, the tandem repeat of the telomere sequence and the sensitivity of the qRT-PCR to detect differential copy numbers of tested samples. In addition, we will describe a simple assay to assess telomerase activity as a complementary backbone test for telomere length.
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Bojesen SE, Pooley KA, Johnatty SE, Beesley J, Michailidou K, Tyrer JP, Edwards SL, Pickett HA, Shen HC, Smart CE, Hillman KM, Mai PL, Lawrenson K, Stutz MD, Lu Y, Karevan R, Woods N, Johnston RL, French JD, Chen X, Weischer M, Nielsen SF, Maranian MJ, Ghoussaini M, Ahmed S, Baynes C, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Dennis J, McGuffog L, Barrowdale D, Lee A, Healey S, Lush M, Tessier DC, Vincent D, Bacot F, Vergote I, Lambrechts S, Despierre E, Risch HA, González-Neira A, Rossing MA, Pita G, Doherty JA, Álvarez N, Larson MC, Fridley BL, Schoof N, Chang-Claude J, Cicek MS, Peto J, Kalli KR, Broeks A, Armasu SM, Schmidt MK, Braaf LM, Winterhoff B, Nevanlinna H, Konecny GE, Lambrechts D, Rogmann L, Guénel P, Teoman A, Milne RL, Garcia JJ, Cox A, Shridhar V, Burwinkel B, Marme F, Hein R, Sawyer EJ, Haiman CA, Wang-Gohrke S, Andrulis IL, Moysich KB, Hopper JL, Odunsi K, Lindblom A, Giles GG, Brenner H, Simard J, Lurie G, Fasching PA, Carney ME, Radice P, Wilkens LR, Swerdlow A, Goodman MT, Brauch H, García-Closas M, Hillemanns P, Winqvist R, Dürst M, Devilee P, Runnebaum I, Jakubowska A, Lubinski J, Mannermaa A, Butzow R, Bogdanova NV, Dörk T, Pelttari LM, Zheng W, Leminen A, Anton-Culver H, Bunker CH, Kristensen V, Ness RB, Muir K, Edwards R, Meindl A, Heitz F, Matsuo K, du Bois A, Wu AH, Harter P, Teo SH, Schwaab I, Shu XO, Blot W, Hosono S, Kang D, Nakanishi T, Hartman M, Yatabe Y, Hamann U, Karlan BY, Sangrajrang S, Kjaer SK, Gaborieau V, Jensen A, Eccles D, Høgdall E, Shen CY, Brown J, Woo YL, Shah M, Azmi MAN, Luben R, Omar SZ, Czene K, Vierkant RA, Nordestgaard BG, Flyger H, Vachon C, Olson JE, Wang X, Levine DA, Rudolph A, Weber RP, Flesch-Janys D, Iversen E, Nickels S, Schildkraut JM, Silva IDS, Cramer DW, Gibson L, Terry KL, Fletcher O, Vitonis AF, van der Schoot CE, Poole EM, Hogervorst FBL, Tworoger SS, Liu J, Bandera EV, Li J, Olson SH, Humphreys K, Orlow I, Blomqvist C, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Aittomäki K, Salvesen HB, Muranen TA, Wik E, Brouwers B, Krakstad C, Wauters E, Halle MK, Wildiers H, Kiemeney LA, Mulot C, Aben KK, Laurent-Puig P, van Altena AM, Truong T, Massuger LFAG, Benitez J, Pejovic T, Perez JIA, Hoatlin M, Zamora MP, Cook LS, Balasubramanian SP, Kelemen LE, Schneeweiss A, Le ND, Sohn C, Brooks-Wilson A, Tomlinson I, Kerin MJ, Miller N, Cybulski C, Henderson BE, Menkiszak J, Schumacher F, Wentzensen N, Marchand LL, Yang HP, Mulligan AM, Glendon G, Engelholm SA, Knight JA, Høgdall CK, Apicella C, Gore M, Tsimiklis H, Song H, Southey MC, Jager A, van den Ouweland AMW, Brown R, Martens JWM, Flanagan JM, Kriege M, Paul J, Margolin S, Siddiqui N, Severi G, Whittemore AS, Baglietto L, McGuire V, Stegmaier C, Sieh W, Müller H, Arndt V, Labrèche F, Gao YT, Goldberg MS, Yang G, Dumont M, McLaughlin JR, Hartmann A, Ekici AB, Beckmann MW, Phelan CM, Lux MP, Permuth-Wey J, Peissel B, Sellers TA, Ficarazzi F, Barile M, Ziogas A, Ashworth A, Gentry-Maharaj A, Jones M, Ramus SJ, Orr N, Menon U, Pearce CL, Brüning T, Pike MC, Ko YD, Lissowska J, Figueroa J, Kupryjanczyk J, Chanock SJ, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Rzepecka IK, Pylkäs K, Bidzinski M, Kauppila S, Hollestelle A, Seynaeve C, Tollenaar RAEM, Durda K, Jaworska K, Hartikainen JM, Kosma VM, Kataja V, Antonenkova NN, Long J, Shrubsole M, Deming-Halverson S, Lophatananon A, Siriwanarangsan P, Stewart-Brown S, Ditsch N, Lichtner P, Schmutzler RK, Ito H, Iwata H, Tajima K, Tseng CC, Stram DO, van den Berg D, Yip CH, Ikram MK, Teh YC, Cai H, Lu W, Signorello LB, Cai Q, Noh DY, Yoo KY, Miao H, Iau PTC, Teo YY, McKay J, Shapiro C, Ademuyiwa F, Fountzilas G, Hsiung CN, Yu JC, Hou MF, Healey CS, Luccarini C, Peock S, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Peterlongo P, Rebbeck TR, Piedmonte M, Singer CF, Friedman E, Thomassen M, Offit K, Hansen TVO, Neuhausen SL, Szabo CI, Blanco I, Garber J, Narod SA, Weitzel JN, Montagna M, Olah E, Godwin AK, Yannoukakos D, Goldgar DE, Caldes T, Imyanitov EN, Tihomirova L, Arun BK, Campbell I, Mensenkamp AR, van Asperen CJ, van Roozendaal KEP, Meijers-Heijboer H, Collée JM, Oosterwijk JC, Hooning MJ, Rookus MA, van der Luijt RB, van Os TAM, Evans DG, Frost D, Fineberg E, Barwell J, Walker L, Kennedy MJ, Platte R, Davidson R, Ellis SD, Cole T, Paillerets BBD, Buecher B, Damiola F, Faivre L, Frenay M, Sinilnikova OM, Caron O, Giraud S, Mazoyer S, Bonadona V, Caux-Moncoutier V, Toloczko-Grabarek A, Gronwald J, Byrski T, Spurdle AB, Bonanni B, Zaffaroni D, Giannini G, Bernard L, Dolcetti R, Manoukian S, Arnold N, Engel C, Deissler H, Rhiem K, Niederacher D, Plendl H, Sutter C, Wappenschmidt B, Borg Å, Melin B, Rantala J, Soller M, Nathanson KL, Domchek SM, Rodriguez GC, Salani R, Kaulich DG, Tea MK, Paluch SS, Laitman Y, Skytte AB, Kruse TA, Jensen UB, Robson M, Gerdes AM, Ejlertsen B, Foretova L, Savage SA, Lester J, Soucy P, Kuchenbaecker KB, Olswold C, Cunningham JM, Slager S, Pankratz VS, Dicks E, Lakhani SR, Couch FJ, Hall P, Monteiro ANA, Gayther SA, Pharoah PDP, Reddel RR, Goode EL, Greene MH, Easton DF, Berchuck A, Antoniou AC, Chenevix-Trench G, Dunning AM. Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer. Nat Genet 2013; 45:371-84, 384e1-2. [PMID: 23535731 PMCID: PMC3670748 DOI: 10.1038/ng.2566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 435] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2012] [Accepted: 01/31/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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TERT-locus SNPs and leukocyte telomere measures are reportedly associated with risks of multiple cancers. Using the Illumina custom genotyping array iCOGs, we analyzed ∼480 SNPs at the TERT locus in breast (n = 103,991), ovarian (n = 39,774) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (n = 11,705) cancer cases and controls. Leukocyte telomere measurements were also available for 53,724 participants. Most associations cluster into three independent peaks. The minor allele at the peak 1 SNP rs2736108 associates with longer telomeres (P = 5.8 × 10(-7)), lower risks for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative (P = 1.0 × 10(-8)) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (P = 1.1 × 10(-5)) breast cancers and altered promoter assay signal. The minor allele at the peak 2 SNP rs7705526 associates with longer telomeres (P = 2.3 × 10(-14)), higher risk of low-malignant-potential ovarian cancer (P = 1.3 × 10(-15)) and greater promoter activity. The minor alleles at the peak 3 SNPs rs10069690 and rs2242652 increase ER-negative (P = 1.2 × 10(-12)) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (P = 1.6 × 10(-14)) breast and invasive ovarian (P = 1.3 × 10(-11)) cancer risks but not via altered telomere length. The cancer risk alleles of rs2242652 and rs10069690, respectively, increase silencing and generate a truncated TERT splice variant.
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- Stig E Bojesen
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Jonathan P Tyrer
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Stacey L Edwards
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Hilda A Pickett
- Cancer Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead, NSW, Australia
- Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Howard C Shen
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Chanel E Smart
- University of Queensland, UQ Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR) Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD, Australia
| | - Kristine M Hillman
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Phuong L Mai
- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
| | - Kate Lawrenson
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Michael D Stutz
- Cancer Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead, NSW, Australia
- Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Yi Lu
- Department of Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Rod Karevan
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Nicholas Woods
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
| | - Rebecca L Johnston
- University of Queensland, UQ Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR) Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD, Australia
| | - Juliet D French
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Xiaoqing Chen
- Department of Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Maren Weischer
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Sune F Nielsen
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Melanie J Maranian
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Maya Ghoussaini
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Shahana Ahmed
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Caroline Baynes
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Manjeet K Bolla
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Qin Wang
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Joe Dennis
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Lesley McGuffog
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Daniel Barrowdale
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Andrew Lee
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Sue Healey
- Department of Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Michael Lush
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Daniel C Tessier
- McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
| | - Daniel Vincent
- McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
| | - Françis Bacot
- McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
| | - Study Group members
- Australian Cancer Study, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, kConFab, GENICA, SWE-BRCA, HEBON, EMBRACE, GEMO Study Collaborators. Full membership lists are provided in the Supplementary Note
| | - Ignace Vergote
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Sandrina Lambrechts
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Evelyn Despierre
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Harvey A Risch
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health and School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
| | - Anna González-Neira
- Human Genotyping-CEGEN Unit, Human Cancer Genetics Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
| | - Mary Anne Rossing
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Guillermo Pita
- Human Genotyping-CEGEN Unit, Human Cancer Genetics Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
| | - Jennifer A Doherty
- Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA
| | - Nuria Álvarez
- Human Genotyping-CEGEN Unit, Human Cancer Genetics Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
| | - Melissa C Larson
- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Brooke L Fridley
- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Nils Schoof
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Jenny Chang-Claude
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Mine S Cicek
- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Julian Peto
- Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
| | | | - Annegien Broeks
- Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Sebastian M Armasu
- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Marjanka K Schmidt
- Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Linde M Braaf
- Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Boris Winterhoff
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Heli Nevanlinna
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Gottfried E Konecny
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Diether Lambrechts
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Oncology, University of Leuven, Belgium
- Vesalius Research Center (VRC), VIB, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Lisa Rogmann
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Pascal Guénel
- INSERM U1018, CESP (Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health), Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer, Villejuif, France
- University Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France
| | - Attila Teoman
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Roger L Milne
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Human Cancer Genetics Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
| | - Joaquin J Garcia
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Angela Cox
- CRUK/YCR Sheffield Cancer Research Centre, Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, UK
| | - Vijayalakshmi Shridhar
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Barbara Burwinkel
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Molecular Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Frederik Marme
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Center for Tumor Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Rebecca Hein
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- PMV Research Group at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
| | - Elinor J Sawyer
- Division of Cancer Studies, NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King's College London, London, UK
| | - Christopher A Haiman
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Shan Wang-Gohrke
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
| | - Irene L Andrulis
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Ontario Cancer Genetics Network, Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Kirsten B Moysich
- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
| | - John L Hopper
- Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Kunle Odunsi
- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
| | - Annika Lindblom
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Graham G Giles
- Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Hermann Brenner
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Jacques Simard
- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Laval University, Quebec, Canada
| | - Galina Lurie
- Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, HI, USA
| | - Peter A Fasching
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA
- University Breast Center Franconia, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Michael E Carney
- Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, HI, USA
| | - Paolo Radice
- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
- IFOM, Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy
| | - Lynne R Wilkens
- Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, HI, USA
| | - Anthony Swerdlow
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
- Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
| | - Marc T Goodman
- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Hiltrud Brauch
- Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Tübingen, Germany
| | - Montserrat García-Closas
- Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
| | - Peter Hillemanns
- Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
| | - Robert Winqvist
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Department of Clinical Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Matthias Dürst
- Department of Gynecology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
| | - Peter Devilee
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Ingo Runnebaum
- Department of Gynecology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
| | - Anna Jakubowska
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Jan Lubinski
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Arto Mannermaa
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Biocenter Kuopio, Cancer Center of Eastern Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Ralf Butzow
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Pathology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Natalia V Bogdanova
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
| | - Thilo Dörk
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
| | - Liisa M Pelttari
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Wei Zheng
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Arto Leminen
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Hoda Anton-Culver
- Department of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
| | - Clareann H Bunker
- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Vessela Kristensen
- Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Medicine (Faculty Division Ahus), UiO, Norway
| | - Roberta B Ness
- The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Kenneth Muir
- Warwick Medical School, Warwick University, Coventry, UK
- Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
| | | | - Alfons Meindl
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Division of Tumor Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
| | - Florian Heitz
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Dr. Horst Schmidt Klinik Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
| | - Keitaro Matsuo
- Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
| | - Andreas du Bois
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Dr. Horst Schmidt Klinik Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
| | - Anna H Wu
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Philipp Harter
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Dr. Horst Schmidt Klinik Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
| | - Soo-Hwang Teo
- Cancer Research Initiatives Foundation, Sime Darby Medical Centre, Subang Jaya, Malaysia
- Breast Cancer Research Unit, University Malaya Cancer Research Institute, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
| | - Ira Schwaab
- Institut für Humangenetik Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
| | - Xiao-Ou Shu
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - William Blot
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
- International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
| | - Satoyo Hosono
- Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
| | - Daehee Kang
- Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
| | - Toru Nakanishi
- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Aichi Cancer Center Central Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
| | - Mikael Hartman
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
| | - Yasushi Yatabe
- Department of Pathology and Molecular Diagnostic, Aichi Cancer Center Central Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
| | - Ute Hamann
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Beth Y Karlan
- Women's Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | | | - Susanne Krüger Kjaer
- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Juliane Marie Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | | | - Allan Jensen
- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Diana Eccles
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK
| | - Estrid Høgdall
- Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Chen-Yang Shen
- Colleague of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichong, Taiwan
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Judith Brown
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Yin Ling Woo
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya Medical Centre, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
| | - Mitul Shah
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Mat Adenan Noor Azmi
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya Medical Centre, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
| | - Robert Luben
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Siti Zawiah Omar
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya Medical Centre, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
| | - Kamila Czene
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Robert A Vierkant
- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Børge G Nordestgaard
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Henrik Flyger
- Department of Breast Surgery, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Celine Vachon
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Janet E Olson
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Xianshu Wang
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Douglas A Levine
- Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Anja Rudolph
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Rachel Palmieri Weber
- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Dieter Flesch-Janys
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology/Clinical Cancer Registry, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Institute for Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Edwin Iversen
- Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control Research Program, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Stefan Nickels
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Joellen M Schildkraut
- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control Research Program, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Isabel Dos Santos Silva
- Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
| | - Daniel W Cramer
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Lorna Gibson
- Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
| | - Kathryn L Terry
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Olivia Fletcher
- Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
| | - Allison F Vitonis
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | | | - Elizabeth M Poole
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Frans B L Hogervorst
- Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Shelley S Tworoger
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Human Genetics Division, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Elisa V Bandera
- The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
| | - Jingmei Li
- Human Genetics Division, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Sara H Olson
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Keith Humphreys
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Irene Orlow
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Carl Blomqvist
- Department of Oncology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | | | - Kristiina Aittomäki
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Helga B Salvesen
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - Taru A Muranen
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Elisabeth Wik
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - Barbara Brouwers
- Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Camilla Krakstad
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - Els Wauters
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Oncology, University of Leuven, Belgium
- Vesalius Research Center (VRC), VIB, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Mari K Halle
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - Hans Wildiers
- Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
| | - Lambertus A Kiemeney
- Comprehensive Cancer Center The Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Urology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Claire Mulot
- Université Paris Sorbonne Cité, UMR-S775 Inserm, Paris, France
| | - Katja K Aben
- Comprehensive Cancer Center The Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | | | - Anne M van Altena
- Department of Gynecology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Thérèse Truong
- INSERM U1018, CESP (Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health), Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer, Villejuif, France
- University Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France
| | - Leon F A G Massuger
- Department of Gynecology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Javier Benitez
- Human Genotyping-CEGEN Unit, Human Cancer Genetics Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
| | - Tanja Pejovic
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
- Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
| | | | - Maureen Hoatlin
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
| | - M Pilar Zamora
- Servicio de Oncología Médica, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
| | - Linda S Cook
- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | | | - Linda E Kelemen
- Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
| | - Andreas Schneeweiss
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Center for Tumor Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Nhu D Le
- Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
| | - Christof Sohn
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Angela Brooks-Wilson
- Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
| | - Ian Tomlinson
- Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
- Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK
| | - Michael J Kerin
- School of medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
| | - Nicola Miller
- School of medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
| | - Cezary Cybulski
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical Academy, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Brian E Henderson
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Janusz Menkiszak
- Department of Surgical Gynecology and Gynecological Oncology of Adults and Adolescents, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Fredrick Schumacher
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Nicolas Wentzensen
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Loic Le Marchand
- Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
| | - Hannah P Yang
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Anna Marie Mulligan
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
| | - Gord Glendon
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Svend Aage Engelholm
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Julia A Knight
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Claus K Høgdall
- The Juliane Marie Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Carmel Apicella
- Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Martin Gore
- Gynecological Oncology Unit, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK
| | - Helen Tsimiklis
- Genetic Epidemiology Department, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
| | - Honglin Song
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Melissa C Southey
- Genetic Epidemiology Department, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
| | - Agnes Jager
- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | | | - Robert Brown
- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - John W M Martens
- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - James M Flanagan
- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Mieke Kriege
- Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - James Paul
- The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, UK
| | - Sara Margolin
- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Nadeem Siddiqui
- Department of Gynecological Oncology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
| | - Gianluca Severi
- Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Alice S Whittemore
- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Laura Baglietto
- Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Valerie McGuire
- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
| | | | - Weiva Sieh
- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Heiko Müller
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Volker Arndt
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - France Labrèche
- Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Département de santé environnementale et santé au travail, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| | - Yu-Tang Gao
- Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China
| | - Mark S Goldberg
- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| | - Gong Yang
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Martine Dumont
- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Laval University, Quebec, Canada
| | - John R McLaughlin
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
| | - Arndt Hartmann
- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Arif B Ekici
- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Matthias W Beckmann
- University Breast Center Franconia, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Catherine M Phelan
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
| | - Michael P Lux
- University Breast Center Franconia, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Jenny Permuth-Wey
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
| | - Bernard Peissel
- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
| | - Thomas A Sellers
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
| | - Filomena Ficarazzi
- IFOM, Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy
- Cogentech Cancer Genetic Test Laboratory, Milan, Italy
| | - Monica Barile
- Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy
| | - Argyrios Ziogas
- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Cancer Genetics Research and Prevention, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
| | - Alan Ashworth
- Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
| | | | - Michael Jones
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
| | - Susan J Ramus
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Nick Orr
- Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
| | - Usha Menon
- Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, London, UK
| | - Celeste L Pearce
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Thomas Brüning
- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
| | - Malcolm C Pike
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Yon-Dschun Ko
- Department of Internal Medicine, Evangelische Kliniken Bonn GmbH, Johanniter Krankenhaus, Bonn, Germany
| | - Jolanta Lissowska
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center & Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - Jonine Figueroa
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Jolanta Kupryjanczyk
- Department of Molecular Pathology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - Stephen J Chanock
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Agnieszka Dansonka-Mieszkowska
- Department of Molecular Pathology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - Iwona K Rzepecka
- Department of Molecular Pathology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - Katri Pylkäs
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Department of Clinical Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Mariusz Bidzinski
- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - Saila Kauppila
- Department of Pathology, Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Antoinette Hollestelle
- Family Cancer Clinic, Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC, Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Caroline Seynaeve
- Family Cancer Clinic, Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC, Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Rob A E M Tollenaar
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Katarzyna Durda
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Katarzyna Jaworska
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
- Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
| | - Jaana M Hartikainen
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Biocenter Kuopio, Cancer Center of Eastern Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Veli-Matti Kosma
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Biocenter Kuopio, Cancer Center of Eastern Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Vesa Kataja
- School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Biocenter Kuopio, Cancer Center of Eastern Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Natalia N Antonenkova
- N.N. Alexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Minsk, Belarus
| | - Jirong Long
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Martha Shrubsole
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Sandra Deming-Halverson
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Artitaya Lophatananon
- Warwick Medical School, Warwick University, Coventry, UK
- Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
| | | | | | - Nina Ditsch
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
| | - Peter Lichtner
- Insitute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany
| | - Rita K Schmutzler
- Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
| | - Hidemi Ito
- Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
| | - Hiroji Iwata
- Department of Breast Oncology, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
| | - Kazuo Tajima
- Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
| | - Chiu-Chen Tseng
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Daniel O Stram
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - David van den Berg
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Cheng Har Yip
- Breast Cancer Research Unit, University Malaya Cancer Research Institute, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
| | - M Kamran Ikram
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Yew-Ching Teh
- Breast Cancer Research Unit, University Malaya Cancer Research Institute, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
| | - Hui Cai
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Wei Lu
- Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China
| | - Lisa B Signorello
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
- International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
| | - Qiuyin Cai
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Dong-Young Noh
- Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
| | - Keun-Young Yoo
- Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
| | - Hui Miao
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
| | - Philip Tsau-Choong Iau
- Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
| | - Yik Ying Teo
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
| | - James McKay
- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
| | - Charles Shapiro
- Division of Oncology, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
| | | | - George Fountzilas
- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
| | - Chia-Ni Hsiung
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Jyh-Cherng Yu
- Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Ming-Feng Hou
- Cancer Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
| | - Catherine S Healey
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Craig Luccarini
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Susan Peock
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet
- Institut Curie, Department of Tumour Biology, Paris, France
- Institut Curie, INSERM U830, Paris, France
- Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
| | - Paolo Peterlongo
- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
- IFOM, Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy
| | - Timothy R Rebbeck
- Basser Research Centre, Abramson Cancer Center, The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Marion Piedmonte
- Gynecologic Oncology Group Statistical and Data Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
| | - Christian F Singer
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Eitan Friedman
- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
- Institute of Oncology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
| | - Mads Thomassen
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
| | - Kenneth Offit
- Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Thomas V O Hansen
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Susan L Neuhausen
- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
| | - Csilla I Szabo
- Center for Translational Cancer Research, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
| | - Ignacio Blanco
- Genetic Counseling Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, IDIBELL-Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Judy Garber
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Steven A Narod
- Women's College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | | | - Marco Montagna
- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV - IRCCS, Padua, Italy
| | - Edith Olah
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
| | - Andrew K Godwin
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
| | - Drakoulis Yannoukakos
- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, IRRP, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, Athens, Greece
| | - David E Goldgar
- Department of Dermatology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
| | - Trinidad Caldes
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC, Madrid, Spain
| | | | | | - Banu K Arun
- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
- Clinical Cancer Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Ian Campbell
- VBCRC Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
| | - Arjen R Mensenkamp
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| | - Christi J van Asperen
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Kees E P van Roozendaal
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Canter, Maastricht, The Netherlands
| | - Hanne Meijers-Heijboer
- Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - J Margriet Collée
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Jan C Oosterwijk
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center, Department of Genetics, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Maartje J Hooning
- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Matti A Rookus
- Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Rob B van der Luijt
- Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
| | - Theo A M van Os
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - D Gareth Evans
- Genetic Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
| | - Debra Frost
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Elena Fineberg
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Julian Barwell
- Leicestershire Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK
| | - Lisa Walker
- Oxford Regional Genetics Service, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
| | - M John Kennedy
- Academic Unit of Clinical and Molecular Oncology, Trinity College Dublin and St James's Hospital, Dublin, Eire
| | - Radka Platte
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | | | - Steve D Ellis
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Trevor Cole
- West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
| | - Brigitte Bressac-de Paillerets
- INSERM U946, Fondation Jean Dausset, Paris, France
- Service de Génétique, Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
| | - Bruno Buecher
- Institut Curie, Department of Tumour Biology, Paris, France
| | - Francesca Damiola
- INSERM U1052, CNRS UMR5286, Université Lyon 1, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - Laurence Faivre
- Centre de Génétique, CHU Dijon, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, and Centre Georges François Leclerc, Dijon, France
| | | | - Olga M Sinilnikova
- INSERM U1052, CNRS UMR5286, Université Lyon 1, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Unité Mixte de Génétique Constitutionnelle des Cancers Fréquents, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
| | - Olivier Caron
- Consultation de Génétique, Département de Médecine, Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
| | - Sophie Giraud
- Unité Mixte de Génétique Constitutionnelle des Cancers Fréquents, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
| | - Sylvie Mazoyer
- INSERM U1052, CNRS UMR5286, Université Lyon 1, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon, France
| | - Valérie Bonadona
- Unité de Prévention et d'Epidémiologie Génétique, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
- Université Lyon 1, CNRS UMR5558, Lyon, France
| | | | | | - Jacek Gronwald
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Tomasz Byrski
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Amanda B Spurdle
- Department of Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
| | - Bernardo Bonanni
- Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy
| | - Daniela Zaffaroni
- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
| | | | - Loris Bernard
- Cogentech Cancer Genetic Test Laboratory, Milan, Italy
- Department of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy
| | - Riccardo Dolcetti
- Cancer Bioimmunotherapy Unit, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, IRCCS, Aviano, Italy
| | - Siranoush Manoukian
- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
| | - Norbert Arnold
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein/University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
| | - Christoph Engel
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
| | | | - Kerstin Rhiem
- Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
| | - Dieter Niederacher
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
| | - Hansjoerg Plendl
- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
| | - Christian Sutter
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Barbara Wappenschmidt
- Centre of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
| | - Åke Borg
- Department of Oncology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
| | - Beatrice Melin
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Johanna Rantala
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Maria Soller
- Department of Clinical Genetics, University and Regional Laboratories, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
| | - Katherine L Nathanson
- Basser Research Centre, Abramson Cancer Center, The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Susan M Domchek
- Basser Research Centre, Abramson Cancer Center, The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Gustavo C Rodriguez
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, North Shore University Health System, University of Chicago, Evanston, IL, USA
| | - Ritu Salani
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA
| | - Daphne Gschwantler Kaulich
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Muy-Kheng Tea
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Shani Shimon Paluch
- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
- Institute of Oncology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
| | - Yael Laitman
- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
- Institute of Oncology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
| | | | - Torben A Kruse
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
| | - Uffe Birk Jensen
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
| | - Mark Robson
- Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Anne-Marie Gerdes
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Bent Ejlertsen
- Department of Oncology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Lenka Foretova
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
| | - Sharon A Savage
- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
| | - Jenny Lester
- Women's Cancer Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Penny Soucy
- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Laval University, Quebec, Canada
| | - Karoline B Kuchenbaecker
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Curtis Olswold
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Julie M Cunningham
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Susan Slager
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Vernon S Pankratz
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Ed Dicks
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Sunil R Lakhani
- University of Queensland, UQ Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR) Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD, Australia
- The UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
| | - Fergus J Couch
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Per Hall
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Alvaro N A Monteiro
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
| | - Simon A Gayther
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Paul D P Pharoah
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Roger R Reddel
- Cancer Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead, NSW, Australia
- Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Ellen L Goode
- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Mark H Greene
- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
| | - Douglas F Easton
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Müezzinler A, Zaineddin AK, Brenner H. A systematic review of leukocyte telomere length and age in adults. Ageing Res Rev 2013; 12:509-19. [PMID: 23333817 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2013.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 335] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2012] [Revised: 12/10/2012] [Accepted: 01/07/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To provide a systematic review of the relationship between age and leukocyte telomere length (LTL) in adults. METHODS Relevant studies were identified by a systematic search of Medline, EMBASE and ISI Web of Knowledge databases. Key data, such as age and LTL, were extracted from the studies along with correlation coefficients and yearly attrition rates where available. Obtained data were used to calculate weighted means and correlation coefficients. RESULTS Overall, 124 cross-sectional studies and 5 longitudinal studies were identified. A statistically significant inverse correlation between mean age and mean LTL across cross-sectional studies was observed for both absolute (r=-0.338, p<0.0001) and relative LTL (r=-0.295, p=0.0088). From mean LTL and ages, a yearly telomere loss of 24.7 base pairs (BP)/year was estimated by weighted linear regression. Weighted means of within study correlation of age and TL and yearly telomere loss rate estimates from cross-sectional studies were also in a similar order of magnitude (-0.380 and 21.91 BP/year). The few longitudinal studies reported somewhat higher mean telomere loss rates (between 32.2 and 45.5 BP/year). CONCLUSION While a decrease of LTL with age is out of question, data on variation of the decrease according to sex, age and other potential determinants especially from longitudinal data are still sparse.
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Xie H, Wu X, Wang S, Chang D, Pollock RE, Lev D, Gu J. Long telomeres in peripheral blood leukocytes are associated with an increased risk of soft tissue sarcoma. Cancer 2013; 119:1885-91. [PMID: 23408253 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2012] [Revised: 01/07/2013] [Accepted: 01/08/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Human telomeres consisting of long, tandem repeats of the nucleotide sequence TTAGGG at the chromosome ends are essential for maintaining chromosomal stability. Previous epidemiologic studies have indicated that shorter telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) is associated with the development of many cancers. However, the relation between PBL telomere length and the risk of soft tissue sarcoma (STS) has not been investigated. METHODS The relative telomere length (RTL) was determined in PBLs using real-time polymerase chain reaction in this case-control study. The study participants included 137 patients with histologically confirmed STS (cases) who had received no prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy and 137 healthy controls who were frequency-matched to cases on age, sex, and ethnicity. RESULTS Patients in the case group had significantly longer RTL than controls (1.46 ± 0.42 for cases vs 1.15 ± 0.39 for controls; P < .001). By using median RTL in the controls as a cutoff level, individuals who had long telomere length were associated with a significantly increased risk of STS compared with those who had short telomere length (adjusted odds ratio, 4.71; 95% confidence interval, 2.63-8.44). When participants were categorized further into 3 or 4 groups according to the tertile or quartile RTL values of healthy controls, a significant dose-response relation was observed between longer RTL and increased risks of STS. CONCLUSIONS The current results provided the first epidemiologic evidence that longer telomere length in PBLs is associated significantly with an increased risk of STS, potentially suggesting an important role for telomere maintenance in STS development.
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- Hui Xie
- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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Riegert-Johnson DL, Boardman LA, Crook JE, Thomas CS, Johnson RA, Roberts ME. Shorter peripheral blood telomeres are a potential biomarker for patients with advanced colorectal adenomas. Int J Biol Markers 2012; 27:e375-80. [PMID: 22865299 PMCID: PMC3841073 DOI: 10.5301/jbm.2012.9347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer (CRC) can be prevented by the early detection and removal of advanced adenomas (AAs) by colonoscopy. Our aim was to evaluate peripheral blood leukocyte (PBL) telomere length as a potential biomarker for the presence of AAs. METHODS PBL telomere length was measured in patients with AAs (n=35), in a control group of similarly aged patients who had a normal colonoscopy (n=145) and in a separate population group with no history of cancer, again similarly aged (n=495). Telomere measurements were performed using a quantitative PCR assay and reported as ratios of telomere and single copy gene measurements. RESULTS Telomere lengths tended to be lower in patients with AAs than in patients in the normal colonoscopy group (p<0.001) as well as those in the population group (p=0.011). A telomere/single copy gene ratio of 0.5 was found to have an estimated 94% sensitivity and a 56% specificity for AAs; a combination of sensitivity and specificity for which a value of >0.5 would reduce the odds of a patient having AAs by a factor of 0.11 (the negative likelihood ratio). Thirty three percent of individuals in the population group tested above this cutoff and could be considered at low risk for AAs. CONCLUSIONS PBL telomeres are shortened in patients with colorectal neoplasia, suggesting that PBL telomere length could be a promising non-invasive blood biomarker to pre-screen for risk of AAs prior to colonoscopy.
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TERT-CLPTM1L polymorphism rs401681 contributes to cancers risk: evidence from a meta-analysis based on 29 publications. PLoS One 2012; 7:e50650. [PMID: 23226346 PMCID: PMC3511286 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2012] [Accepted: 10/24/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background Some common genetic variants of TERT-CLPTM1L gene, which encode key protein subunits of telomerase, have been suggested to play a crucial role in tumorigenesis. The TERT-CLPTM1L polymorphism rs401681 was of special interest for cancers risk but with inconclusive results. Methodology/Principal Findings We performed a comprehensive meta-analysis of 29 publications with a total of 91263 cases and 735952 controls. We assessed the strength of the association between rs401681 and overall cancers risk and performed subgroup analyses by cancer type, ethnicity, source of control, sample size and expected power. Rs401681 C allele was found to be associated with marginally increased cancers risk, with per allele OR of 1.04 (95%CI = 1.00–1.08, Pheterogeneity<0.001) and an expected power of 1.000. Following further stratified analyses, the increased cancers risk were discovered in subgroups of lung, bladder, prostate, basal cell carcinomas and Asians, while a declined risk of pancreatic cancer and melanoma were detected. Conclusions/Significance These findings suggested that rs401681 C allele was a low-penetrance risk allele for the development of cancers of lung, bladder, prostate and basal cell carcinoma, but a potential protective allele for melanoma and pancreatic cancer.
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Pellatt AJ, Wolff RK, Lundgreen A, Cawthon R, Slattery ML. Genetic and lifestyle influence on telomere length and subsequent risk of colon cancer in a case control study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS 2012; 3:184-194. [PMID: 23050049 PMCID: PMC3459220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2012] [Accepted: 08/15/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Telomeres cap the ends of chromosomes and help maintain genomic stability and integrity. Telomere length (TL) has been linked to a number of diseases, including a variety of cancers; however, the association between TL and risk for colorectal cancer is unclear. METHODS We investigate the association between genetic, diet, and lifestyle factors and TL and the association between TL and colorectal cancer using data from a population-based case-control study of colon (249 cases and 371 controls) and rectal cancer (276 cases and 372 controls) conducted in Utah. DNA samples came from immortalized cell lines for colon cancer and directly from whole blood for rectal cancer. We genotyped 11 single nucleotide polymorphisms in five genes associated with telomeres, TERT, MEN1, MRE11A, RECQL5, and TNKS. RESULTS TL was measured using quantitative PCR. TERT rs2853676 (p=0.044) and RECQL5 rs820152 (p=0.001) were associated with TL at <0.05 level of significance. After adjusting for age and sex, BMI and cigarette smoking were significantly inversely associated with TL among controls. Use of aspirin/NSAIDs interacted significantly with TERT rs10069690 and rs2242652 to alter TL. Longer TL was significantly associated with reduced colon cancer risk after adjusting for age and sex (OR = 0.94 95% confidence intervals 0.89-0.99 per decile of TL). Further adjustment for BMI and cigarette smoking attenuated the association so that it was no longer significant. CONCLUSIONS In summary several genetic and lifestyle factors were observed to influence TL. These factors also appear to confound associations between TL and colon cancer.
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- Andrew J Pellatt
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences CenterSalt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences CenterSalt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences CenterSalt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of UtahSalt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences CenterSalt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Cui Y, Cai Q, Qu S, Chow WH, Wen W, Xiang YB, Wu J, Rothman N, Yang G, Shu XO, Gao YT, Zheng W. Association of leukocyte telomere length with colorectal cancer risk: nested case-control findings from the Shanghai Women's Health Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2012; 21:1807-13. [PMID: 22911335 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-12-0657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Telomeres are specialized chromatin structures essential for maintenance of chromosomal integrity and stability. Abnormal alteration of telomere length has been linked to several cancers; however, epidemiologic evidence about the association of telomere length with colorectal cancer risk has been conflicting. METHODS We conducted a nested case-control study to evaluate the association between telomere length and colorectal cancer risk using peripheral blood samples collected before cancer diagnosis. The study included 441 women with incident colorectal cancer and 549 matched controls. Monochrome multiplex quantitative PCR was applied to measure relative telomere length. Multiple logistic regressions were used to derive adjusted OR with 95% confidence intervals (CI) as the measure of association between telomere length and subsequent colorectal cancer risk. RESULTS A U-shaped association was observed between telomere length and colorectal cancer risk (test for nonlinearity P = 0.0112). Women with telomere length in the third quintile (40th-60th percentiles) had the lowest risk of colorectal cancer, and the risks were elevated with a shorter or longer telomere length. This U-shaped association did not statistically differ for colon cancer and rectum cancer. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPACT Our prospective study revealed a U-shaped association between telomere length in peripheral blood cells and colorectal cancer risk. Our findings provide strong evidence that both very short and very long telomeres are associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer.
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- Yong Cui
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Jones AM, Beggs AD, Carvajal-Carmona L, Farrington S, Tenesa A, Walker M, Howarth K, Ballereau S, Hodgson SV, Zauber A, Bertagnolli M, Midgley R, Campbell H, Kerr D, Dunlop MG, Tomlinson IPM. TERC polymorphisms are associated both with susceptibility to colorectal cancer and with longer telomeres. Gut 2012; 61:248-54. [PMID: 21708826 PMCID: PMC3245900 DOI: 10.1136/gut.2011.239772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 05/04/2011] [Accepted: 05/29/2011] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Shorter telomeres have been associated with increased risk of malignancy, including colorectal cancer (CRC). Telomere length is heritable and may be an intermediate phenotype linked to genetic susceptibility to CRC. METHODS In a large sample, the study investigated whether candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in 'telomere biology' genes were associated with telomere length in leucocytes. SNP associated with an increased risk of CRC were searched for separately. RESULTS Carriers of the common allele at SNP rs10936599, near the telomerase RNA component (TERC) locus, had significantly longer telomeres. It was independently found that the same rs10936599 allele was associated with increased risk of both CRC and colorectal adenomas. Neither telomere length nor CRC risk was associated with variation near telomerase reverse transcriptase or other telomere biology genes. In silico analysis showed that SNP rs2293607 was strongly correlated with rs10936599, mapped within TERC transcripts, had a predicted effect on messenger RNA folding and lay at a reported transcription factor binding site. TERC mRNA were expressed, differing only at the alleles of rs2293607, in CRC cell line HCT116. The long-telomere/CRC-risk allele was associated with higher levels of TERC mRNA and the formation of longer telomeres. CONCLUSIONS Common genetic variation at TERC is associated with both longer telomeres and an increased risk of CRC, a potential mechanism being reduced levels of cell senescence or death. This finding is somewhat paradoxical, given retrospective studies reporting that CRC cases have shorter telomeres than controls. One possibility is that that association actually results from poorer survival in patients with longer telomeres.
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- A M Jones
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Hou L, Zhang X, Gawron AJ, Liu J. Surrogate tissue telomere length and cancer risk: shorter or longer? Cancer Lett 2012; 319:130-135. [PMID: 22269209 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2012.01.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2011] [Revised: 01/13/2012] [Accepted: 01/16/2012] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Telomeres play a critical role in chromosome stability. Telomere length (TL) shortening is a risk factor for cancers. Measuring TL in surrogate tissues that can be easily collected may provide a potential tool for early detection of cancers. A number of studies on surrogate tissue TL and cancer risks have been conducted and results are inconsistent, including positive, negative, or null associations. In this article, we reviewed the published data on surrogate tissue TL in relation to cancer risks, discussed the possible reasons for the differences in the results and future directions and challenges for this line of research.
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- Lifang Hou
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 680 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611, United States; The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 E. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611, United States.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 680 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611, United States
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 676 N. St. Clair, Chicago, IL 60611, United States
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- Department of Digestive Diseases of Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, 12 Middle Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai 200040, PR China.
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Pavanello S, Lotti M. Biological monitoring of carcinogens: current status and perspectives. Arch Toxicol 2011; 86:535-41. [PMID: 22159923 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-011-0793-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2011] [Accepted: 11/25/2011] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Biomonitoring exposures to carcinogens is common practice and a variety of biomarkers have been developed to assess both exposures and biochemical/biological effects. However, their clinical and preventive relevance is still uncertain. The understanding of cancer as a genetic disease has dramatically evolved during last decades, showing that cancer cell types acquire their characteristics with different strategies, time frames and microenvironments. Therefore, the place of current biomarkers within this complex scenario of gene-environment interactions leading to cancer cannot be defined. Reasons are manifold. Most studies assessed cancer risk on a group basis through snapshots taken at unknown time-points of the postulated chain of events. Little attention has been paid to the variety and variability of exposures, and no prospective study validated the indicators of biochemical/biological effects. New opportunities and suggestions for biomonitoring exposures to carcinogens could derive from exploring the exposome that combines exposures from all sources both external and internal. The discovery of new biomarkers and the identification of relevant gene-specific pathways could be achieved through metabolomic and genome-wide studies. In conclusion, it is possible to envisage personalized biomonitoring procedures, such as those already implemented in the context of nutrition and clinical oncology.
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- Sofia Pavanello
- Dipartimento di Medicina Ambientale e Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padova, Italy.
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The role telomeres and telomerase play in the initiation and progression of human cancers has been extensively evaluated. Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes comprising the hexanucleotide DNA repeat sequence, TTAGGG and numerous telomere-associated proteins, including the six member Shelterin complex. The main function of the telomere is to stabilize the ends of the chromosomes. However, through multiple mechanisms, telomeres can become dysfunctional, which may drive genomic instability leading to the development of cancer. The majority of human cancers maintain, or actively lengthen, telomeres through up-regulation of the reverse transcriptase telomerase. Because there are significant differences in telomere length and telomerase activity between malignant and non-malignant tissues, many investigations have assessed the potential to utilize these molecular markers for cancer diagnosis. Here, we critically evaluate whether measurements of telomere lengths and telomerase levels may be clinically utilized as diagnostic markers in solid tumours, with emphasis on breast and prostate cancer as representative examples. Future directions focusing on the direct detection of dysfunctional telomeres are explored. New markers for telomere dysfunction may eventually prove clinically useful.
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- Christopher M Heaphy
- Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.
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Maxwell F, McGlynn LM, Muir HC, Talwar D, Benzeval M, Robertson T, Roxburgh CS, McMillan DC, Horgan PG, Shiels PG. Telomere attrition and decreased fetuin-A levels indicate accelerated biological aging and are implicated in the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2011; 17:5573-81. [PMID: 21753158 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-10-3271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Increasing chronological age is a risk factor for many types of cancer including colorectal. An understanding of the biology of aging and factors which regulate it may provide insight into cancer pathogenesis. The role of telomere biology in both the cancer and aging process could prove useful in this regard. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Using quantitative PCR, we determined telomere length in the peripheral blood leukocytes of 64 colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and 1,348 controls. We also measured telomere length in 32 colorectal tumor samples and matched normal tissue. We aimed to assess whether telomere lengths were reflected in circulating mediators of inflammation and redox control factors, including fetuin-A, a circulating modulator of calcium homeostasis. RESULTS CRC patients had shorter telomeres [adjusted mean ratio of relative telomere repeat copy number to single-copy gene number (RelT/S) = 0.61] compared with chronologically older controls (mean age = 75, adjusted mean RelT/S = 0.70; ANCOVA, P = 0.004). Telomere length in tumor tissue [median = 0.43, interquartile range (IQR) = 0.40] was significantly shorter than adjacent normal tissue (median = 0.65, IQR = 0.28; P = 0.004). Patients with low fetuin-A levels were shown to have significantly shorter telomeres (P = 0.041). Patients with rectal tumors had significantly higher levels of fetuin-A than those with colonic tumors (P = 0.045). CONCLUSIONS We have observed that patients with CRC display clear evidence of telomere attrition compared with controls. This is congruent with accelerated biological aging in the pathogenesis of CRC. An imbalance in redox control mechanisms and calcium homeostasis may be a contributing factor to telomere dynamics in our patients. Furthermore, fetuin-A levels can be used to distinguish between colon and rectal cancers.
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- Fraser Maxwell
- Department of Surgery, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Western Infirmary, Scotland, UK
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Prescott J, Wentzensen IM, Savage SA, De Vivo I. Epidemiologic evidence for a role of telomere dysfunction in cancer etiology. Mutat Res 2011; 730:75-84. [PMID: 21756922 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2011.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2011] [Revised: 06/14/2011] [Accepted: 06/27/2011] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Telomeres, the dynamic nucleoprotein structures at the ends of linear chromosomes, maintain the genomic integrity of a cell. Telomere length shortens with age due to the incomplete replication of DNA ends with each cell division as well as damage incurred by oxidative stress. Patterns of telomere shortening, genomic instability, and telomerase expression in many cancer tissues compared to adjacent normal tissue implicate telomere crisis as a common crucial event in malignant transformation. In order to understand the role of telomere length in cancer etiology, most epidemiologic studies have measured average telomere length of peripheral blood or buccal cell DNA as a surrogate tissue biomarker of telomere dysfunction and cancer risk. In this review, we present the results from epidemiologic investigations conducted of telomere length and cancer risk. We note differences in reported associations based on study design, which may be due to biases intrinsic to retrospective studies. Finally, we conclude with study design considerations as future investigations are needed to elucidate the relationship between telomere length and a number of cancer sites.
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- Jennifer Prescott
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Ma H, Zhou Z, Wei S, Liu Z, Pooley KA, Dunning AM, Svenson U, Roos G, Hosgood HD, Shen M, Wei Q. Shortened telomere length is associated with increased risk of cancer: a meta-analysis. PLoS One 2011; 6:e20466. [PMID: 21695195 PMCID: PMC3112149 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 264] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2011] [Accepted: 04/26/2011] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Telomeres play a key role in the maintenance of chromosome integrity and stability, and telomere shortening is involved in initiation and progression of malignancies. A series of epidemiological studies have examined the association between shortened telomeres and risk of cancers, but the findings remain conflicting. METHODS A dataset composed of 11,255 cases and 13,101 controls from 21 publications was included in a meta-analysis to evaluate the association between overall cancer risk or cancer-specific risk and the relative telomere length. Heterogeneity among studies and their publication bias were further assessed by the χ(2)-based Q statistic test and Egger's test, respectively. RESULTS The results showed that shorter telomeres were significantly associated with cancer risk (OR = 1.35, 95% CI = 1.14-1.60), compared with longer telomeres. In the stratified analysis by tumor type, the association remained significant in subgroups of bladder cancer (OR = 1.84, 95% CI = 1.38-2.44), lung cancer (OR = 2.39, 95% CI = 1.18-4.88), smoking-related cancers (OR = 2.25, 95% CI = 1.83-2.78), cancers in the digestive system (OR = 1.69, 95% CI = 1.53-1.87) and the urogenital system (OR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.12-2.67). Furthermore, the results also indicated that the association between the relative telomere length and overall cancer risk was statistically significant in studies of Caucasian subjects, Asian subjects, retrospective designs, hospital-based controls and smaller sample sizes. Funnel plot and Egger's test suggested that there was no publication bias in the current meta-analysis (P = 0.532). CONCLUSIONS The results of this meta-analysis suggest that the presence of shortened telomeres may be a marker for susceptibility to human cancer, but single larger, well-design prospective studies are warranted to confirm these findings.
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- Hongxia Ma
- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Biosciences/Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biosciences/Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Wentzensen IM, Mirabello L, Pfeiffer RM, Savage SA. The association of telomere length and cancer: a meta-analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2011; 20:1238-50. [PMID: 21467229 PMCID: PMC3111877 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-11-0005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 358] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Telomeres shorten with each cell division and are essential for chromosomal stability. Short telomeres in surrogate tissues (e.g., blood cells) are associated with increased cancer risk in several case-control studies, but findings are inconsistent in prospective studies. METHODS We systematically reviewed studies published prior to August 30, 2010, on the association between telomere length (TL) in surrogate tissues and cancer. There were 27 reports on 13 cancers and/or incident cancer investigating this association. The majority, 16, were retrospective case--control studies, 11 were prospective studies. Meta-analyses were conducted to determine ORs and 95% CIs for these studies. RESULTS Studies on bladder, esophageal, gastric, head and neck, ovarian, renal, and overall incident cancer found associations between short telomeres and these cancers. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, breast, lung, and colorectal cancer reports were inconsistent. Single studies on endometrial, prostate, and skin cancers were null. In a random-effects meta-analysis, short TL was significantly associated with cancer in retrospective studies (pooled OR for the shortest TL quartile compared with the longest: 2.9, 95% CI: 1.75-4.8, P < 0.0001). The pooled OR for prospective studies was 1.16 (95% CI: 0.87-1.54, P = 0.32). All studies combined yielded a pooled OR of 1.96 (95% CI: 1.37-2.81, P = 0.0001) for the association of short TL and cancer. CONCLUSION AND IMPACT There is suggestive evidence that short surrogate tissue TL is associated with cancer; the strongest evidence exists for bladder, esophageal, gastric, and renal cancers. Additional prospective studies with consistent methodology are needed to confirm this hypothesis.
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- Ingrid M. Wentzensen
- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852
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- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852
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- Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852
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- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852
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Wentzensen IM, Mirabello L, Pfeiffer RM, Savage SA. The association of telomere length and cancer: a meta-analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2011. [PMID: 21467229 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-110005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Telomeres shorten with each cell division and are essential for chromosomal stability. Short telomeres in surrogate tissues (e.g., blood cells) are associated with increased cancer risk in several case-control studies, but findings are inconsistent in prospective studies. METHODS We systematically reviewed studies published prior to August 30, 2010, on the association between telomere length (TL) in surrogate tissues and cancer. There were 27 reports on 13 cancers and/or incident cancer investigating this association. The majority, 16, were retrospective case--control studies, 11 were prospective studies. Meta-analyses were conducted to determine ORs and 95% CIs for these studies. RESULTS Studies on bladder, esophageal, gastric, head and neck, ovarian, renal, and overall incident cancer found associations between short telomeres and these cancers. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, breast, lung, and colorectal cancer reports were inconsistent. Single studies on endometrial, prostate, and skin cancers were null. In a random-effects meta-analysis, short TL was significantly associated with cancer in retrospective studies (pooled OR for the shortest TL quartile compared with the longest: 2.9, 95% CI: 1.75-4.8, P < 0.0001). The pooled OR for prospective studies was 1.16 (95% CI: 0.87-1.54, P = 0.32). All studies combined yielded a pooled OR of 1.96 (95% CI: 1.37-2.81, P = 0.0001) for the association of short TL and cancer. CONCLUSION AND IMPACT There is suggestive evidence that short surrogate tissue TL is associated with cancer; the strongest evidence exists for bladder, esophageal, gastric, and renal cancers. Additional prospective studies with consistent methodology are needed to confirm this hypothesis.
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- Ingrid M Wentzensen
- Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
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Liang G, Qureshi AA, Guo Q, De Vivo I, Han J. No association between telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes and the risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2011; 20:1043-5. [PMID: 21357377 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-11-0072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Recent reports have shown that telomere length was associated with the risk of various cancers, but the results have been inconsistent. METHODS We prospectively evaluated the association of telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes with the risk of skin squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in 241 cases and 241 controls within the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS), and the risk of skin basal cell carcinoma (BCC) in 623 cases and 1,943 controls within the Nurses' Health Study (NHS). RESULTS No significant association was observed between telomere length and risk of SCC (longest quartile vs. shortest quartile, OR = 1.09, 95%CI: 0.62-1.93, P = 0.81). Null findings were also observed between telomere length and risk of BCC in 2 independent sets (OR = 0.96, 95%CI: 0.49-1.87, P = 0.83; and OR = 0.91, 95%CI: 0.66-1.25, P = 0.39). CONCLUSION We found no evidence that telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes was associated with risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer. IMPACT Our prospective study suggests that telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes is less likely to play a substantial role in nonmelanoma skin cancer development.
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- Geyu Liang
- Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Mirabello L, Richards EG, Duong LM, Yu K, Wang Z, Cawthon R, Berndt SI, Burdett L, Chowdhury S, Teshome K, Douglass C, Savage SA. Telomere length and variation in telomere biology genes in individuals with osteosarcoma. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS 2011; 2:19-29. [PMID: 21537398 PMCID: PMC3077235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2010] [Accepted: 11/18/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Osteosarcoma, the most common primary bone tumor, occurs most frequently in adolescents. Chromosomal aneuploidy is common in osteosarcoma cells, suggesting underlying chromosomal instability. Telomeres, located at chromosome ends, are essential for genomic stability; several studies have suggested that germline telomere length (TL) is associated with cancer risk. We hypothesized that TL and/or common genetic variation in telomere biology genes may be associated with risk of osteosarcoma. We investigated TL in peripheral blood DNA and 713 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 39 telomere biology genes in 98 osteosarcoma cases and 69 orthopedic controls. For the genotyping component, we added 1363 controls from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer ScreeningTrial. Short TL was not associated with osteosarcoma risk overall (OR 1.39, P=0.67), although there was a statistically significant association in females (OR 4.35, 95% Cl 1.20-15.74, P=0.03). Genotype analyses identified seven SNPs in TERF1 significantly associated with osteosarcoma risk after Bonferroni correction by gene. These SNPs were highly linked and associated with a reduced risk of osteosarcoma (OR 0.48-0.53, P=0.0001-0.0006). We also investigated associations between TL and telomere gene SNPs in osteosarcoma cases and orthopedic controls. Several SNPs were associated with TL prior to Bonferroni correction; one SNP in NOLA2 and one in MEN1 were marginally non-significant after correction (P(adj)=0.057 and 0.066, respectively). This pilot-study suggests that females with short telomeres may be at increased risk of osteosarcoma, and that SNPs in TERF1 are inversely associated with osteosarcoma risk.
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Pooley KA, Tyrer J, Shah M, Driver KE, Leyland J, Brown J, Audley T, McGuffog L, Ponder BAJ, Pharoah PDP, Easton DF, Dunning AM. No association between TERT-CLPTM1L single nucleotide polymorphism rs401681 and mean telomere length or cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2010; 19:1862-5. [PMID: 20570912 PMCID: PMC2901592 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-10-0281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND A recent study reported genetic variants in the TERT-CLPTM1L locus that were associated with mean telomere length, and with risk of multiple cancers. METHODS We evaluated the association between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs401681 (C > T) and mean telomere length, using quantitative real-time PCR, in blood-extracted DNA collected from 11,314 cancer-free participants from the Sisters in Breast Screening study, the Melanoma and Pigmented Lesions Evaluative Study melanoma family study, and the SEARCH Breast, Colorectal, Melanoma studies. We also examined the relationship between rs401618 genotype and susceptibility to breast cancer (6,800 cases and 6,608 controls), colorectal cancer (2,259 cases and 2,181 controls), and melanoma (787 cases and 999 controls). RESULTS The "per T allele" change in mean telomere length (DeltaCt), adjusted for age, study plate, gender, and family was 0.001 [95% confidence intervals (CI), 0.01-0.02; P trend = 0.61]. The "per T allele" odds ratio for each cancer was 1.01 for breast cancer (95% CI, 0.96-1.06; P trend = 0.64), 1.02 for colorectal cancer (95% CI, 0.94-1.11; P trend = 0.66), and 0.99 for melanoma (95% CI, 0.84-1.15; P trend = 0.87). CONCLUSIONS We found no evidence that this SNP was associated with mean telomere length, or with risk of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, or melanoma. IMPACT Our results indicate that the observed associations between rs401681 and several cancer types might be weaker than previously described. The lack of an association in our study between this SNP and mean telomere length suggests that any association with cancer risk at this locus is not mediated through TERT.
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- Karen A Pooley
- Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge CB18RN, United Kingdom.
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Lee IM, Lin J, Castonguay AJ, Barton NS, Buring JE, Zee RYL. Mean leukocyte telomere length and risk of incident colorectal carcinoma in women: a prospective, nested case-control study. Clin Chem Lab Med 2010; 48:259-62. [PMID: 19961392 DOI: 10.1515/cclm.2010.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND To date, no prospective epidemiological data are available, particularly in women, on mean leukocyte telomere length as a risk predictor. METHODS Using leukocyte DNA samples collected at baseline in a prospective cohort of over 28,000 initially healthy women, we examined the relationship between mean leukocyte telomere repeat copy number to single gene copy number (TSR) in 134 incident cases of colorectal carcinoma (CRC), and 357 matched controls; all were Caucasian. RESULTS The observed log(e)-transformed TSRs were similar between cases and controls (p=0.79). Using an adjusted analysis, we found no evidence for an association of the log(e)-TSRs with CRC risk [adjusted odds ratio (OR)=0.943, 95% confidence interval (CI)=0.647-1.376, p=0.762]. Stratified analysis by median follow-up time, or postmenopausal status also showed similar null findings. CONCLUSIONS In concordance with our previous findings in Caucasian men, the present study in Caucasian women found no evidence for an association of mean leukocyte telomere length with risk of incident CRC, further suggesting that leukocyte telomere length may not be a useful indicator for risk assessment.
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- I-Min Lee
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Pooley KA, Sandhu MS, Tyrer J, Shah M, Driver KE, Luben RN, Bingham SA, Ponder BA, Pharoah PD, Khaw KT, Easton DF, Dunning AM. Telomere length in prospective and retrospective cancer case-control studies. Cancer Res 2010; 70:3170-6. [PMID: 20395204 PMCID: PMC2855947 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-09-4595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Previous studies have reported that shorter mean telomere length in lymphocytes was associated with increased susceptibility to common diseases of aging, and may be predictive of cancer risk. However, most analyses have examined retrospectively collected case-control studies. Mean telomere length was measured using high-throughput quantitative real-time PCR. Blood for DNA extraction was collected after cancer diagnosis in the East Anglian SEARCH Breast (2,243 cases and 2,181 controls) and SEARCH Colorectal (2,249 cases and 2,161 controls) studies. Prospective case-control studies were conducted for breast cancer (199 cases) and colorectal cancer (185 cases), nested within the EPIC-Norfolk cohort. Blood was collected at least 6 months prior to diagnosis, and was matched to DNA from two cancer-free controls per case. In the retrospective SEARCH studies, the age-adjusted odds ratios for shortest (Q4) versus longest (Q1) quartile of mean telomere length was 15.5 [95% confidence intervals (CI), 11.6-20.8; p-het = 5.7 x 10(-75)], with a "per quartile" P-trend = 2.1 x 10(-80) for breast cancer; and 2.14 (95% CI, 1.77-2.59; p-het = 7.3 x 10(-15)), with a per quartile P-trend = 1.8 x 10(-13) for colorectal cancer. In the prospective EPIC study, the comparable odds ratios (Q4 versus Q1) were 1.58 (95% CI, 0.75-3.31; p-het = 0.23) for breast cancer and 1.13 (95% CI, 0.54-2.36; p-het = 0.75) for colorectal cancer risk. Mean telomere length was shorter in retrospectively collected cases than in controls but the equivalent association was markedly weaker in the prospective studies. This suggests that telomere shortening largely occurs after diagnosis, and therefore, might not be of value in cancer prediction.
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- Karen A. Pooley
- Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Genetic Epidemiology, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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