Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for renal cell carcinoma

  • Ghislaine Scelo,
  • Mark P. Purdue,
  • Kevin M. Brown,
  • Mattias Johansson,
  • Zhaoming Wang,
  • Jeanette E. Eckel-Passow,
  • Yuanqing Ye,
  • Jonathan N. Hofmann,
  • Jiyeon Choi,
  • Matthieu Foll,
  • Valerie Gaborieau,
  • Mitchell J. Machiela,
  • Leandro M. Colli,
  • Peng Li,
  • Joshua N. Sampson,
  • Behnoush Abedi-Ardekani,
  • Celine Besse,
  • Helene Blanche,
  • Anne Boland,
  • Laurie Burdette,
  • Amelie Chabrier,
  • Geoffroy Durand,
  • Florence Le Calvez-Kelm,
  • Egor Prokhortchouk,
  • Nivonirina Robinot,
  • Konstantin G. Skryabin,
  • Magdalena B. Wozniak,
  • Meredith Yeager,
  • Gordana Basta-Jovanovic,
  • Zoran Dzamic,
  • Lenka Foretova,
  • Ivana Holcatova,
  • Vladimir Janout,
  • Dana Mates,
  • Anush Mukeriya,
  • Stefan Rascu,
  • David Zaridze,
  • Vladimir Bencko,
  • Cezary Cybulski,
  • Eleonora Fabianova,
  • Viorel Jinga,
  • Jolanta Lissowska,
  • Jan Lubinski,
  • Marie Navratilova,
  • Peter Rudnai,
  • Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska,
  • Simone Benhamou,
  • Geraldine Cancel-Tassin,
  • Olivier Cussenot,
  • Laura Baglietto,
  • Heiner Boeing,
  • Kay-Tee Khaw,
  • Elisabete Weiderpass,
  • Borje Ljungberg,
  • Raviprakash T. Sitaram,
  • Fiona Bruinsma,
  • Susan J. Jordan,
  • Gianluca Severi,
  • Ingrid Winship,
  • Kristian Hveem,
  • Lars J. Vatten,
  • Tony Fletcher,
  • Kvetoslava Koppova,
  • Susanna C. Larsson,
  • Alicja Wolk,
  • Rosamonde E. Banks,
  • Peter J. Selby,
  • Douglas F. Easton,
  • Paul Pharoah,
  • Gabriella Andreotti,
  • Laura E. Beane Freeman,
  • Stella Koutros,
  • Demetrius Albanes,
  • Satu Männistö,
  • Stephanie Weinstein,
  • Peter E. Clark,
  • Todd L. Edwards,
  • Loren Lipworth,
  • Susan M. Gapstur,
  • Victoria L. Stevens,
  • Hallie Carol,
  • Matthew L. Freedman,
  • Mark M. Pomerantz,
  • Eunyoung Cho,
  • Peter Kraft,
  • Mark A. Preston,
  • Kathryn M. Wilson,
  • J. Michael Gaziano,
  • Howard D. Sesso,
  • Amanda Black,
  • Neal D. Freedman,
  • Wen-Yi Huang,
  • John G. Anema,
  • Richard J. Kahnoski,
  • Brian R. Lane,
  • Sabrina L. Noyes,
  • David Petillo,
  • Bin Tean Teh,
  • Ulrike Peters,
  • Emily White,
  • Garnet L. Anderson,
  • Lisa Johnson,
  • Juhua Luo,
  • Julie Buring,
  • I-Min Lee,
  • Wong-Ho Chow,
  • Lee E. Moore,
  • Christopher Wood,
  • Timothy Eisen,
  • Marc Henrion,
  • James Larkin,
  • Poulami Barman,
  • Bradley C. Leibovich,
  • Toni K. Choueiri,
  • G. Mark Lathrop,
  • Nathaniel Rothman,
  • Jean-Francois Deleuze,
  • James D. McKay,
  • Alexander S. Parker,
  • Xifeng Wu,
  • Richard S. Houlston,
  • Paul Brennan,
  • Stephen J. Chanock

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15724
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Risk for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is higher when there are first-degree family members with the disease. Here, Scelo and colleagues perform a genome-wide association meta-analysis and new genome-wide scan to identify seven new loci with significant RCC association.