A genome-wide association scan (GWAS) for mean telomere length within the COGS project: identified loci show little association with hormone-related cancer risk

Karen A Pooley, Stig E Bojesen, Maren Weischer, Sune F Nielsen, Deborah Thompson, Ali Amin Al Olama, Kyriaki Michailidou, Jonathan P Tyrer, Sara Benlloch, Judith Brown, Tina Audley, Robert Luben, K-T Khaw, David E Neal, Freddie C Hamdy, Jenny L Donovan, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Caroline Baynes, Mitul Shah, Manjeet K BollaQin Wang, Joe Dennis, Ed Dicks, Rongxi Yang, Anja Rudolph, Joellen Schildkraut, Jenny Chang-Claude, Barbara Burwinkel, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Paul D P Pharoah, Andrew Berchuck, Rosalind A Eeles, Douglas F Easton, Alison M Dunning, Børge G Nordestgaard

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    Abstract

    Mean telomere length (TL) in blood cells is heritable and has been reported to be associated with risks of several diseases, including cancer. We conducted a meta-analysis of three GWAS for TL (total n=2240) and selected 1629 variants for replication via the "iCOGS" custom genotyping array. All ∼200 000 iCOGS variants were analysed with TL, and those displaying associations in healthy controls (n = 15 065) were further tested in breast cancer cases (n = 11 024). We found a novel TL association (Ptrend
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftHuman Molecular Genetics
    Vol/bind22
    Udgave nummer24
    Sider (fra-til)5056-64
    Antal sider9
    ISSN0964-6906
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 15 dec. 2013

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