Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies discovers multiple loci for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

  • Sonja I. Berndt,
  • Nicola J. Camp,
  • Christine F. Skibola,
  • Joseph Vijai,
  • Zhaoming Wang,
  • Jian Gu,
  • Alexandra Nieters,
  • Rachel S. Kelly,
  • Karin E. Smedby,
  • Alain Monnereau,
  • Wendy Cozen,
  • Angela Cox,
  • Sophia S. Wang,
  • Qing Lan,
  • Lauren R. Teras,
  • Moara Machado,
  • Meredith Yeager,
  • Angela R. Brooks-Wilson,
  • Patricia Hartge,
  • Mark P. Purdue,
  • Brenda M. Birmann,
  • Claire M. Vajdic,
  • Pierluigi Cocco,
  • Yawei Zhang,
  • Graham G. Giles,
  • Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte,
  • Charles Lawrence,
  • Rebecca Montalvan,
  • Laurie Burdett,
  • Amy Hutchinson,
  • Yuanqing Ye,
  • Timothy G. Call,
  • Tait D. Shanafelt,
  • Anne J. Novak,
  • Neil E. Kay,
  • Mark Liebow,
  • Julie M. Cunningham,
  • Cristine Allmer,
  • Henrik Hjalgrim,
  • Hans-Olov Adami,
  • Mads Melbye,
  • Bengt Glimelius,
  • Ellen T. Chang,
  • Martha Glenn,
  • Karen Curtin,
  • Lisa A. Cannon-Albright,
  • W Ryan Diver,
  • Brian K. Link,
  • George J. Weiner,
  • Lucia Conde,
  • Paige M. Bracci,
  • Jacques Riby,
  • Donna K. Arnett,
  • Degui Zhi,
  • Justin M. Leach,
  • Elizabeth A. Holly,
  • Rebecca D. Jackson,
  • Lesley F. Tinker,
  • Yolanda Benavente,
  • Núria Sala,
  • Delphine Casabonne,
  • Nikolaus Becker,
  • Paolo Boffetta,
  • Paul Brennan,
  • Lenka Foretova,
  • Marc Maynadie,
  • James McKay,
  • Anthony Staines,
  • Kari G. Chaffee,
  • Sara J. Achenbach,
  • Celine M. Vachon,
  • Lynn R. Goldin,
  • Sara S. Strom,
  • Jose F. Leis,
  • J. Brice Weinberg,
  • Neil E. Caporaso,
  • Aaron D. Norman,
  • Anneclaire J. De Roos,
  • Lindsay M. Morton,
  • Richard K. Severson,
  • Elio Riboli,
  • Paolo Vineis,
  • Rudolph Kaaks,
  • Giovanna Masala,
  • Elisabete Weiderpass,
  • María- Dolores Chirlaque,
  • Roel C. H. Vermeulen,
  • Ruth C. Travis,
  • Melissa C. Southey,
  • Roger L. Milne,
  • Demetrius Albanes,
  • Jarmo Virtamo,
  • Stephanie Weinstein,
  • Jacqueline Clavel,
  • Tongzhang Zheng,
  • Theodore R. Holford,
  • Danylo J. Villano,
  • Ann Maria,
  • John J. Spinelli,
  • Randy D. Gascoyne,
  • Joseph M. Connors,
  • Kimberly A. Bertrand,
  • Edward Giovannucci,
  • Peter Kraft,
  • Anne Kricker,
  • Jenny Turner,
  • Maria Grazia Ennas,
  • Giovanni M. Ferri,
  • Lucia Miligi,
  • Liming Liang,
  • Baoshan Ma,
  • Jinyan Huang,
  • Simon Crouch,
  • Ju-Hyun Park,
  • Nilanjan Chatterjee,
  • Kari E. North,
  • John A. Snowden,
  • Josh Wright,
  • Joseph F. Fraumeni,
  • Kenneth Offit,
  • Xifeng Wu,
  • Silvia de Sanjose,
  • James R. Cerhan,
  • Stephen J. Chanock,
  • Nathaniel Rothman,
  • Susan L. Slager

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10933
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a highly inheritable cancer. Here the authors conduct a metaanalysis of four genome-wide association studies and identify three novel loci located near EOMES, SERPINB6 and LPPassociated with risk of this disease.