Title |
Combined and Interactive Effects of Environmental and GWAS-Identified Risk Factors in Ovarian Cancer
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Published in |
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, May 2013
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DOI | 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-12-1030-t |
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Authors |
Celeste Leigh Pearce, Mary Anne Rossing, Alice W. Lee, Roberta B. Ness, Penelope M. Webb, for Australian Cancer Study, and Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Susan M. Jordan, Douglas A. Stram, Jenny Chang-Claude, Rebecca Hein, Stefan Nickels, Galina Lurie, Pamela J. Thompson, Michael E. Carney, Marc T. Goodman, Kirsten Moysich, Estrid Hogdall, Allan Jensen, Ellen L. Goode, Brooke L. Fridley, Julie M. Cunningham, Robert A. Vierkant, Rachel Palmieri Weber, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, Simon A. Gayther, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Usha Menon, Susan J. Ramus, Louise Brinton, Nicolas Wentzensen, Jolanta Lissowska, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Leon F.A.G. Massuger, Lambertus A.L.M. Kiemeney, Anne M. Van Altena, Katja K.H. Aben, Andrew Berchuck, Jennifer A. Doherty, Edwin Iversen, Valerie McGuire, Patricia G. Moorman, Paul Pharoah, Malcolm C. Pike, Harvey Risch, Weiva Sieh, Daniel O. Stram, Kathryn L. Terry, Alice Whittemore, Anna H. Wu, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Susanne K. Kjaer, for the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium |
Abstract |
There are several well-established environmental risk factors for ovarian cancer, and recent genome-wide association studies have also identified six variants that influence disease risk. However, the interplay between such risk factors and susceptibility loci has not been studied. |
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