Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Two high-risk susceptibility loci at 6p25.3 and 14q32.13 for Waldenström macroglobulinemia

  • Mary L. McMaster,
  • Sonja I. Berndt,
  • Jianqing Zhang,
  • Susan L. Slager,
  • Shengchao Alfred Li,
  • Claire M. Vajdic,
  • Karin E. Smedby,
  • Huihuang Yan,
  • Brenda M. Birmann,
  • Elizabeth E. Brown,
  • Alex Smith,
  • Geffen Kleinstern,
  • Mervin M. Fansler,
  • Christine Mayr,
  • Bin Zhu,
  • Charles C. Chung,
  • Ju-Hyun Park,
  • Laurie Burdette,
  • Belynda D. Hicks,
  • Amy Hutchinson,
  • Lauren R. Teras,
  • Hans-Olov Adami,
  • Paige M. Bracci,
  • James McKay,
  • Alain Monnereau,
  • Brian K. Link,
  • Roel C. H. Vermeulen,
  • Stephen M. Ansell,
  • Ann Maria,
  • W. Ryan Diver,
  • Mads Melbye,
  • Akinyemi I. Ojesina,
  • Peter Kraft,
  • Paolo Boffetta,
  • Jacqueline Clavel,
  • Edward Giovannucci,
  • Caroline M. Besson,
  • Federico Canzian,
  • Ruth C. Travis,
  • Paolo Vineis,
  • Elisabete Weiderpass,
  • Rebecca Montalvan,
  • Zhaoming Wang,
  • Meredith Yeager,
  • Nikolaus Becker,
  • Yolanda Benavente,
  • Paul Brennan,
  • Lenka Foretova,
  • Marc Maynadie,
  • Alexandra Nieters,
  • Silvia de Sanjose,
  • Anthony Staines,
  • Lucia Conde,
  • Jacques Riby,
  • Bengt Glimelius,
  • Henrik Hjalgrim,
  • Nisha Pradhan,
  • Andrew L. Feldman,
  • Anne J. Novak,
  • Charles Lawrence,
  • Bryan A. Bassig,
  • Qing Lan,
  • Tongzhang Zheng,
  • Kari E. North,
  • Lesley F. Tinker,
  • Wendy Cozen,
  • Richard K. Severson,
  • Jonathan N. Hofmann,
  • Yawei Zhang,
  • Rebecca D. Jackson,
  • Lindsay M. Morton,
  • Mark P. Purdue,
  • Nilanjan Chatterjee,
  • Kenneth Offit,
  • James R. Cerhan,
  • Stephen J. Chanock,
  • Nathaniel Rothman,
  • Joseph Vijai,
  • Lynn R. Goldin,
  • Christine F. Skibola,
  • Neil E. Caporaso

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06541-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM)/lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) is a non-Hodgkin-type B cell lymphoma. Here, the authors identify two risk loci for WM/LPL in a two-stage GWAS involving a family-oversampling approach and provide evidence for a functional role of the non-coding SNP rs116446171.