@article{e73574cab1ed4b9cb2c07c74d3e6369d,
title = "A genome-wide association scan (GWAS) for mean telomere length within the COGS project: identified loci show little association with hormone-related cancer risk",
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 ",
author = "Pooley, {Karen A} and Bojesen, {Stig E} and Maren Weischer and Nielsen, {Sune F} and Deborah Thompson and {Amin Al Olama}, Ali and Kyriaki Michailidou and Tyrer, {Jonathan P} and Sara Benlloch and Judith Brown and Tina Audley and Robert Luben and K-T Khaw and Neal, {David E} and Hamdy, {Freddie C} and Donovan, {Jenny L} and Zsofia Kote-Jarai and Caroline Baynes and Mitul Shah and Bolla, {Manjeet K} and Qin Wang and Joe Dennis and Ed Dicks and Rongxi Yang and Anja Rudolph and Joellen Schildkraut and Jenny Chang-Claude and Barbara Burwinkel and Georgia Chenevix-Trench and Pharoah, {Paul D P} and Andrew Berchuck and Eeles, {Rosalind A} and Easton, {Douglas F} and Dunning, {Alison M} and Nordestgaard, {B{\o}rge G}",
year = "2013",
month = dec,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1093/hmg/ddt355",
language = "English",
volume = "22",
pages = "5056--64",
journal = "Human Molecular Genetics",
issn = "0964-6906",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "24",
}