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Stefan Nickels

The German National Institute for state examinations in Medicine, Pharmacy and …
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Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

K Michailidou, P Hall, A Gonzalez-Neira… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Common variants at 27 loci have
been identified as associated with susceptibility to breast cancer, and these account for∼ …

Systemic and ocular determinants of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measurements in the European Eye Epidemiology (E3) population

MM Mauschitz, PWM Bonnemaijer, K Diers… - Ophthalmology, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To investigate systemic and ocular determinants of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber
layer thickness (pRNFLT) in the European population. Design Cross-sectional meta …

Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative–specific breast cancer risk loci

M Garcia-Closas, FJ Couch, S Lindstrom… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Estrogen receptor (ER)-negative tumors represent 20–30% of all breast cancers, with a
higher proportion occurring in younger women and women of African ancestry. The etiology …

GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer

PDP Pharoah, YY Tsai, SJ Ramus, CM Phelan… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified four susceptibility loci for
epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), with another two suggestive loci reaching near genome …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

M Ghoussaini, O Fletcher, K Michailidou, C Turnbull… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. To date, 22 common breast
cancer susceptibility loci have been identified accounting for∼ 8% of the heritability of the …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity and risk of ovarian cancer subtypes: evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

CM Olsen, CM Nagle, DC Whiteman… - Endocrine-related …, 2013 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Whilst previous studies have reported that higher BMI increases a woman's risk of
developing ovarian cancer, associations for the different histological subtypes have not …

Genome-wide association study identifies 25 known breast cancer susceptibility loci as risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer

KS Purrington, S Slager, D Eccles… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Triple-negative (TN) breast cancer is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer associated
with a unique set of epidemiologic and genetic risk factors. We conducted a two-stage …

[PDF][PDF] Functional variants at the 11q13 risk locus for breast cancer regulate cyclin D1 expression through long-range enhancers

JD French, M Ghoussaini, SL Edwards… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Analysis of 4,405 variants in 89,050 European subjects from 41 case-control studies
identified three independent association signals for estrogen-receptor-positive tumors at …

A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of breast cancer identifies two novel susceptibility loci at 6q14 and 20q11

A Siddiq, FJ Couch, GK Chen… - Human molecular …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of breast cancer defined by hormone receptor
status have revealed loci contributing to susceptibility of estrogen receptor (ER)-negative …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic analysis leads to identification of HNF1B as a subtype-specific susceptibility gene for ovarian cancer

H Shen, BL Fridley, H Song, K Lawrenson… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
HNF1B is overexpressed in clear cell epithelial ovarian cancer, and we observed epigenetic
silencing in serous epithelial ovarian cancer, leading us to hypothesize that variation in this …