• Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies pleiotropic risk loci for aerodigestive squamous cell cancers 

      Lesseur, Corina; Ferreiro-Iglesias, Aida; McKay, James D.; Bossé, Yohan; Johansson, Mattias; Gaborieau, Valerie; Landi, Maria Teresa; Christiani, David C.; Caporaso, Neil E.; Bojesen, Stig E.; Amos, Christopher I.; Shete, Sanjay S.; Liu, Geoffrey; Rennert, Gadi; Albanes, Demetrius; Aldrich, Melinda C.; Tardon, Adonina; Chen, Chu; Triantafillos, Liloglou; Field, John K.; Teare, Marion Dawn; Kiemeney, Lambertus A.; Diergaarde, Brenda; Ferris, Robert L.; Zienolddiny, Shanbeh; Lam, Stephen; Olshan, Andrew F.; Weissler, Mark C.; Lacko, Martin; Risch, Angela; Bickeböller, Heike; Ness, Andy R.; Thomas, Steve; Le Marchand, Loïc; Schabath, Matthew B.; Wunsch-Filho, Victor; Tajara, Eloiza H.; Andrew, Angeline S.; Clifford, Gary M.; Lazarus, Philip; Grankvist, Kjell; Johansson, Mikael; Arnold, Susanne; Melander, Olle; Brunnström, Hans; Boccia, Stefania; Cadoni, Gabriella; Timens, Wim; Obeidat, Ma’en; Xiao, Xiangjun; Houlston, Richard S.; Hung, Rayjean J.; Brennan, Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Squamous cell carcinomas (SqCC) of the aerodigestive tract have similar etiological risk factors. Although genetic risk variants for individual cancers have been identified, an agnostic, genome-wide search for shared genetic ...
    • Mendelian randomization and mediation analysis of leukocyte telomere length and risk of lung and head and neck cancers 

      Kachuri, Linda; Saarela, Olli; Bojesen, Stig E.; Smith, George Davey; Liu, Geoffrey; Landi, Maria Teresa; Caporaso, Neil E.; Christiani, David C.; Johansson, Mattias; Panico, Salvatore; Overvad, Kim; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Vineis, Paolo; Scelo, Ghislaine; Zaridze, David; Wu, Xifeng; Albanes, Demetrius; Diergaarde, Brenda; Lagiou, Pagona; Macfarlane, Gary J.; Aldrich, Melinda; Tardon, Adonina; Rennert, Gad; Olshan, Andrew F.; Weissler, Mark C.; Chen, Chu; Goodman, Gary E.; Doherty, Jennifer A.; Ness, Andrew R.; Bickeboller, Heike; Wichmann, H. Erich; Risch, Angela; Field, John K.; Teare, M. Dawn; Kiemeney, Lambertus; van der Heijden, Erik H. F. M.; Carroll, June C.; Haugen, Aage; Zienolddiny, Shanbeh; Skaug, Vidar; Wunsch-Filho, Victor; Tajara, Eloiza H.; Moyses, Raquel Ajub; Nunes, Fabio Daumas; Lam, Stephen; Eluf-Neto, Jose; Lacko, Martin; Peters, Wilbert HM; Le Marchand, Loïc; Duell, Eric J.; Andrew, Angeline S.; Franceschi, Silvia; Schabath, Matthew B.; Manjer, Jonas; Arnold, Susanne; Lazarus, Philip; Mukeriya, Anush; Swiatkowska, Beata; Janout, Vladimir; Holcátová, Ivana; Stojsic, Jelena; Mates, Dana; Lissowska, Jolanta; Boccia, Stefania; Lesseur, Corina; Zong, Xuchen; McKay, James D.; Brennan, Paul; Amos, Christopher I.; Hung, Rayjean J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Background: Evidence from observational studies of telomere length (TL) has been conflicting regarding its direction of association with cancer risk. We investigated the causal relevance of TL for lung and head and neck ...