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Ana V Vega

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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[PDF][PDF] Breast cancer genes: beyond BRCA1 and BRCA2

SE Filippini, A Vega - Front Biosci (Landmark Ed), 2013 - article.imrpress.com
[Frontiers in Bioscience 18, 1358-1372, June 1, 2013] 1358 Breast cancer genes: beyond
BRCA1 and BRCA2 Sandra E. Filippini1, 2 a Page 1 [Frontiers in Bioscience 18, 1358-1372 …

Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

FR Schumacher, AA Al Olama, SI Berndt, S Benlloch… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and fine-mapping efforts to date have identified
more than 100 prostate cancer (PrCa)-susceptibility loci. We meta-analyzed genotype data …

Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

DV Conti, BF Darst, LC Moss, EJ Saunders, X Sheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is a highly heritable disease with large disparities in incidence rates across
ancestry populations. We conducted a multiancestry meta-analysis of prostate cancer …

Radiogenomics: the search for genetic predictors of radiotherapy response

SL Kerns, CM L West, CN Andreassen… - Future …, 2014 - Future Medicine
ABSTRACT 'Radiogenomics' is the study of genetic variation associated with response to
radiotherapy. Radiogenomics aims to uncover the genes and biologic pathways responsible …

Cancer Risks Associated With BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants

S Li, V Silvestri, G Leslie, TR Rebbeck… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE To provide precise age-specific risk estimates of cancers other than female
breast and ovarian cancers associated with pathogenic variants (PVs) in BRCA1 and …

[HTML][HTML] A review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: the female perspective

JL Bailey, ST Molino, AD Vega, M Badowski - Infectious diseases and …, 2017 - Springer
When taken consistently, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with once daily tenofovir disoproxil fumarate-emtricitabine …

[HTML][HTML] Fibroblast growth factor homologous factors control neuronal excitability through modulation of voltage-gated sodium channels

M Goldfarb, J Schoorlemmer, A Williams, S Diwakar… - Neuron, 2007 - cell.com
Neurons integrate and encode complex synaptic inputs into action potential outputs through
a process termed" intrinsic excitability." Here, we report the essential contribution of …

Analysis of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in Spanish breast/ovarian cancer patients: A high proportion of mutations unique to Spain and evidence of founder effects

O Díez, A Osorio, M Durán… - Human …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We screened index cases from 410 Spanish breast/ovarian cancer families and 214 patients
(19 of them males) with breast cancer for germ‐line mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 …

A three-stage genome-wide association study identifies a susceptibility locus for late radiotherapy toxicity at 2q24. 1

L Fachal, A Gomez-Caamano, GC Barnett, P Peleteiro… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
There is increasing evidence supporting the role of genetic variants in the development of
radiation-induced toxicity. However, previous candidate gene association studies failed to …

[HTML][HTML] A critical reassessment of the role of mitochondria in tumorigenesis

A Salas, YG Yao, V Macaulay, A Vega… - PLoS …, 2005 - journals.plos.org
Background Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is being analyzed by an increasing number of
laboratories in order to investigate its potential role as an active marker of tumorigenesis in …