Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Genome-wide association analysis implicates dysregulation of immunity genes in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

  • Philip J. Law,
  • Sonja I. Berndt,
  • Helen E. Speedy,
  • Nicola J. Camp,
  • Georgina P. Sava,
  • Christine F. Skibola,
  • Amy Holroyd,
  • Vijai Joseph,
  • Nicola J. Sunter,
  • Alexandra Nieters,
  • Silvia Bea,
  • Alain Monnereau,
  • David Martin-Garcia,
  • Lynn R. Goldin,
  • Guillem Clot,
  • Lauren R. Teras,
  • Inés Quintela,
  • Brenda M. Birmann,
  • Sandrine Jayne,
  • Wendy Cozen,
  • Aneela Majid,
  • Karin E. Smedby,
  • Qing Lan,
  • Claire Dearden,
  • Angela R. Brooks-Wilson,
  • Andrew G. Hall,
  • Mark P. Purdue,
  • Tryfonia Mainou-Fowler,
  • Claire M. Vajdic,
  • Graham H. Jackson,
  • Pierluigi Cocco,
  • Helen Marr,
  • Yawei Zhang,
  • Tongzhang Zheng,
  • Graham G. Giles,
  • Charles Lawrence,
  • Timothy G. Call,
  • Mark Liebow,
  • Mads Melbye,
  • Bengt Glimelius,
  • Larry Mansouri,
  • Martha Glenn,
  • Karen Curtin,
  • W Ryan Diver,
  • Brian K. Link,
  • Lucia Conde,
  • Paige M. Bracci,
  • Elizabeth A. Holly,
  • Rebecca D. Jackson,
  • Lesley F. Tinker,
  • Yolanda Benavente,
  • Paolo Boffetta,
  • Paul Brennan,
  • Marc Maynadie,
  • James McKay,
  • Demetrius Albanes,
  • Stephanie Weinstein,
  • Zhaoming Wang,
  • Neil E. Caporaso,
  • Lindsay M. Morton,
  • Richard K. Severson,
  • Elio Riboli,
  • Paolo Vineis,
  • Roel C. H. Vermeulen,
  • Melissa C. Southey,
  • Roger L. Milne,
  • Jacqueline Clavel,
  • Sabine Topka,
  • John J. Spinelli,
  • Peter Kraft,
  • Maria Grazia Ennas,
  • Geoffrey Summerfield,
  • Giovanni M. Ferri,
  • Robert J. Harris,
  • Lucia Miligi,
  • Andrew R. Pettitt,
  • Kari E. North,
  • David J. Allsup,
  • Joseph F. Fraumeni,
  • James R. Bailey,
  • Kenneth Offit,
  • Guy Pratt,
  • Henrik Hjalgrim,
  • Chris Pepper,
  • Stephen J. Chanock,
  • Chris Fegan,
  • Richard Rosenquist,
  • Silvia de Sanjose,
  • Angel Carracedo,
  • Martin J. S. Dyer,
  • Daniel Catovsky,
  • Elias Campo,
  • James R. Cerhan,
  • James M. Allan,
  • Nathanial Rothman,
  • Richard Houlston,
  • Susan Slager

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14175
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia has a hereditary component, much of which remains to be identified. Here, the authors perform a genome-wide association study and find new risk loci for the disease, which are associated with genes involved in immune function.