Genome-wide association study of glioma subtypes identifies specific differences in genetic susceptibility to glioblastoma and non-glioblastoma tumors

Nature Genetics 49, 789 (2017).
doi:10.1038/ng.3823

Authors: Beatrice S Melin, Jill S Barnholtz-Sloan, Margaret R Wrensch, Christoffer Johansen, Dora Il'yasova, Ben Kinnersley, Quinn T Ostrom, Karim Labreche, Yanwen Chen, Georgina Armstrong, Yanhong Liu, Jeanette E Eckel-Passow, Paul A Decker, Marianne Labussière, Ahmed Idbaih, Khe Hoang-Xuan, Anna-Luisa Di Stefano, Karima Mokhtari, Jean-Yves Delattre, Peter Broderick, Pilar Galan, Konstantinos Gousias, Johannes Schramm, Minouk J Schoemaker, Sarah J Fleming, Stefan Herms, Stefanie Heilmann, Markus M Nöthen, Heinz-Erich Wichmann, Stefan Schreiber, Anthony Swerdlow, Mark Lathrop, Matthias Simon, Marc Sanson, Ulrika Andersson, Preetha Rajaraman, Stephen Chanock, Martha Linet, Zhaoming Wang, Meredith Yeager, John K Wiencke, Helen Hansen, Lucie McCoy, Terri Rice, Matthew L Kosel, Hugues Sicotte, Christopher I Amos, Jonine L Bernstein, Faith Davis, Dan Lachance, Ching Lau, Ryan T Merrell, Joellen Shildkraut, Francis Ali-Osman, Siegal Sadetzki, Michael Scheurer, Sanjay Shete, Rose K Lai, Elizabeth B Claus, Sara H Olson, Robert B Jenkins, Richard S Houlston & Melissa L Bondy
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have transformed our understanding of glioma susceptibility, but individual studies have had limited power to identify risk loci. We performed a meta-analysis of existing GWAS and two new GWAS, which totaled 12,496 cases and 18,190 controls. We identified five new loci for glioblastoma (GBM) at 1p31.3 (...

Source: Nature Genetics - March 27, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Beatrice S Melin Jill S Barnholtz-Sloan Margaret R Wrensch Christoffer Johansen Dora Il'yasova Ben Kinnersley Quinn T Ostrom Karim Labreche Yanwen Chen Georgina Armstrong Yanhong Liu Jeanette E Eckel-Passow Paul A Decker Marianne Labussi è re Ahmed Idbai Tags: Letter Source Type: research