[HTML][HTML] Genetics of healthy aging and longevity

AR Brooks-Wilson - Human genetics, 2013 - Springer
Longevity and healthy aging are among the most complex phenotypes studied to date. The
heritability of age at death in adulthood is approximately 25%. Studies of exceptionally long …

Germline E-cadherin mutations in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: assessment of 42 new families and review of genetic screening criteria

AR Brooks-Wilson, P Kaurah, G Suriano… - Journal of medical …, 2004 - jmg.bmj.com
Background: Mutations in the E-cadherin (CDH1) gene are a well documented cause of
hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC). Development of evidence based guidelines for …

Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

SI Berndt, CF Skibola, V Joseph, NJ Camp, A Nieters… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have previously identified 13 loci associated with
risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL). To identify …

Analysis of long-lived C. elegans daf-2 mutants using serial analysis of gene expression

J Halaschek-Wiener, JS Khattra, S McKay… - Genome …, 2005 - genome.cshlp.org
We have identified longevity-associated genes in a long-lived Caenorhabditis elegans daf-2
(insulin/IGF receptor) mutant using serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE), a method that …

Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for diffuse large B cell lymphoma

JR Cerhan, SI Berndt, J Vijai, H Ghesquières… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common lymphoma subtype and is
clinically aggressive. To identify genetic susceptibility loci for DLBCL, we conducted a meta …

Analysis of heritability and shared heritability based on genome-wide association studies for 13 cancer types

JN Sampson, WA Wheeler, M Yeager… - Journal of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background: Studies of related individuals have consistently demonstrated notable familial
aggregation of cancer. We aim to estimate the heritability and genetic correlation attributable …

BCL2 mutations in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

JM Schuetz, NA Johnson, RD Morin, DW Scott, K Tan… - Leukemia, 2012 - nature.com
BCL2 is deregulated in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) by the t (14; 18)
translocation, gene amplification and/or nuclear factor-κB signaling. RNA-seq data have …

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

SI Berndt, NJ Camp, CF Skibola, J Vijai, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a common lymphoid malignancy with strong
heritability. To further understand the genetic susceptibility for CLL and identify common loci …

[PDF][PDF] Genome-wide association study identifies five susceptibility loci for follicular lymphoma outside the HLA region

CF Skibola, SI Berndt, J Vijai, L Conde, Z Wang… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of follicular lymphoma (FL) have previously
identified human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene variants. To identify additional FL …

Organochlorines and risk of non‐Hodgkin lymphoma

JJ Spinelli, CH Ng, JP Weber… - … journal of cancer, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Organochlorine chemicals and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been suspected as
possible risk factors for non‐Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). We investigated PCBs and …