Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer

We conducted imputation to the 1000 Genomes Project of four genome-wide association studies of lung cancer in populations of European ancestry (11,348 cases and 15,861 controls) and genotyped an additional 10,246 cases and 38,295 controls for follow-up. We identified large-effect genome-wide associa...

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Main Authors: Wang, Yufei, McKay, James D., Rafnar, Thorunn, Wang, Zhaoming, Timofeeva, Maria, Broderick, Peter, Zong, Xuchen, Laplana, Marina, Wei, Yongyue, Han, Younghun, Lloyd, Amy, Delahaye-Sourdeix, Manon, Chubb, Daniel, Gaborieau, Valerie, Wheeler, William, Chatterjee, Nilanjan, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Sulem, Patrick, Liu, Geoffrey, Kaaks, Rudolf, Henrion, Marc, Kinnersley, Ben, Vallée, Maxime, LeCalvez-Kelm, Florence, Stevens, Victoria L., Gapstur, Susan M., Chen, Wei V., Zaridze, David, Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Neonilia, Lissowska, Jolanta, Rudnai, Peter, Fabianova, Eleonora, Mates, Dana, Bencko, Vladimir, Foretova, Lenka, Janout, Vladimir, Krokan, Hans E., Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad, Skorpen, Frank, Vatten, Lars, Njølstad, Inger, Chen, Chu, Goodman, Gary, Benhamou, Simone, Vooder, Tonu, Valk, Kristjan, Nelis, Mari, Metspalu, Andres, Lener, Marcin, Lubiński, Jan, Johansson, Mattias, Vineis, Paolo, Agudo, Antonio, Clavel-Chapelon, Francoise, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H.Bas, Trichopoulos, Dimitrios, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Johansson, Mikael, Weiderpass, Elisabete, Tjønneland, Anne, Riboli, Elio, Lathrop, Mark, Scelo, Ghislaine, Albanes, Demetrius, Caporaso, Neil E., Ye, Yuanqing, Gu, Jian, Wu, Xifeng, Spitz, Margaret R., Dienemann, Hendrik, Rosenberger, Albert, Su, Li, Matakidou, Athena, Eisen, Timothy, Stefansson, Kari, Risch, Angela, Chanock, Stephen J., Christiani, David C., Hung, Rayjean J., Brennan, Paul, Landi, Maria Teresa, Houlston, Richard S., Amos, Christopher I.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4074058/