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Genomic characterization of cervical lymph node metastases in papillary thyroid carcinoma following the Chornobyl accident

Childhood radioactive iodine exposure from the Chornobyl accident increased papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) risk. While cervical lymph node metastases (cLNM) are well-recognized in pediatric PTC, the PTC met...

Lindsay M. Morton, Olivia W. Lee, Danielle M. Karyadi… in Nature Communications (2024)

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FORGEdb: a tool for identifying candidate functional variants and uncovering target genes and mechanisms for complex diseases

The majority of disease-associated variants identified through genome-wide association studies are located outside of protein-coding regions. Prioritizing candidate regulatory variants and gene targets to iden...

Charles E. Breeze, Eric Haugen, María Gutierrez-Arcelus, **aozheng Yao… in Genome Biology (2024)

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Mosaic chromosomal alterations in peripheral blood leukocytes of children in sub-Saharan Africa

In high-income countries, mosaic chromosomal alterations in peripheral blood leukocytes are associated with an elevated risk of adverse health outcomes, including hematologic malignancies. We investigate mosai...

Weiyin Zhou, Anja Fischer, Martin D. Ogwang, Wen Luo… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Identification of novel genetic loci for risk of multiple myeloma by functional annotation

Angelica Macauda, Klara Briem, Alyssa Clay-Gilmour, Wendy Cozen, Asta Försti… in Leukemia (2023)

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Mosaic chromosomal alterations in blood across ancestries using whole-genome sequencing

Megabase-scale mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) in blood are prognostic markers for a host of human diseases. Here, to gain a better understanding of mCA rates in genetically diverse populations, we analy...

Yasminka A. Jakubek, Ying Zhou, Adrienne Stilp, Jason Bacon… in Nature Genetics (2023)

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Shared and distinct genetic etiologies for different types of clonal hematopoiesis

Clonal hematopoiesis (CH)—age-related expansion of mutated hematopoietic clones—can differ in frequency and cellular fitness by CH type (e.g., mutations in driver genes (CHIP), gains/losses and copy-neutral lo...

Derek W. Brown, Liam D. Cato, Yajie Zhao, Satish K. Nandakumar… in Nature Communications (2023)

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Increase in power by obtaining 10 or more controls per case when type-1 error is small in large-scale association studies

The rule of thumb that there is little gain in statistical power by obtaining more than 4 controls per case, is based on type-1 error α = 0.05. However, association studies that evaluate thousands or millions ...

Hormuzd A. Katki, Sonja I. Berndt, Mitchell J. Machiela… in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2023)

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Genetically adjusted PSA levels for prostate cancer screening

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer remains controversial because it increases overdiagnosis and overtreatment of clinically insignificant tumors. Accounting for genetic determinants ...

Linda Kachuri, Thomas J. Hoffmann, Yu Jiang, Sonja I. Berndt… in Nature Medicine (2023)

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Genome-wide association study of lung adenocarcinoma in East Asia and comparison with a European population

Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer. Known risk variants explain only a small fraction of lung adenocarcinoma heritability. Here, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study o...

Jianxin Shi, Kouya Shiraishi, Jiyeon Choi, Keitaro Matsuo… in Nature Communications (2023)

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GWAS Explorer: an open-source tool to explore, visualize, and access GWAS summary statistics in the PLCO Atlas

The Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial is a prospective cohort study of nearly 155,000 U.S. volunteers aged 55–74 at enrollment in 1993–2001. We developed the PLCO Atlas Proje...

Mitchell J. Machiela, Wen-Yi Huang, Wendy Wong, Sonja I. Berndt… in Scientific Data (2023)

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Germline-somatic JAK2 interactions are associated with clonal expansion in myelofibrosis

Myelofibrosis is a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) with high risk for progression to acute myeloid leukemia. Our integrated genomic analysis of up to 933 myelofibrosis cases identifies 6 germline suscep...

Derek W. Brown, Weiyin Zhou, You** Wang, Kristine Jones, Wen Luo… in Nature Communications (2022)

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AuthorArranger automates formatting title pages and author affiliations for manuscript submissions

Scientific investigations are becoming increasingly collaborative resulting in growing lists of contributors to studies that can be time consuming to organize when formatting journal title pages. Here we prese...

Mitchell J. Machiela, Geoffrey Tobias in Communications Biology (2022)

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The renal lineage factor PAX8 controls oncogenic signalling in kidney cancer

Large-scale human genetic data^1–3 have shown that cancer mutations display strong tissue-selectivity, but how this selectivity arises remains unclear. Here, using experimental models, functional genomics and anal...

Saroor A. Patel, Shoko Hirosue, Paulo Rodrigues, Erika Vojtasova… in Nature (2022)

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LDexpress: an online tool for integrating population-specific linkage disequilibrium patterns with tissue-specific expression data

Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of genetic susceptibility loci associated with cancer as well as other traits and diseases. Map** germline variation in identified genetic susceptibi...

Shu-Hong Lin, Rohit Thakur, Mitchell J. Machiela in BMC Bioinformatics (2021)

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Clonal hematopoiesis is associated with risk of severe Covid-19

Acquired somatic mutations in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (clonal hematopoiesis or CH) are associated with advanced age, increased risk of cardiovascular and malignant diseases, and decreased overa...

Kelly L. Bolton, Youngil Koh, Michael B. Foote, Hogune Im… in Nature Communications (2021)

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Incident disease associations with mosaic chromosomal alterations on autosomes, X and Y chromosomes: insights from a phenome-wide association study in the UK Biobank

Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) are large chromosomal gains, losses and copy-neutral losses of heterozygosity (LOH) in peripheral leukocytes. While many individuals with detectable mCAs have no notable a...

Shu-Hong Lin, Derek W. Brown, Brandon Rose, Felix Day, Olivia W. Lee… in Cell & Bioscience (2021)

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Prognostic impact of pre-transplant chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood of patients undergoing unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplant for acute myeloid leukemia

To improve risk stratification and treatment decisions for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). We used SNP-array data from the DISCOVeRY-BMT study to...

You** Wang, Weiyin Zhou, Lisa J. McReynolds, Hormuzd A. Katki… in Scientific Reports (2021)

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Hematopoietic mosaic chromosomal alterations increase the risk for diverse types of infection

Age is the dominant risk factor for infectious diseases, but the mechanisms linking age to infectious disease risk are incompletely understood. Age-related mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) detected from g...

Seyedeh M. Zekavat, Shu-Hong Lin, Alexander G. Bick, Aoxing Liu… in Nature Medicine (2021)

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sparrpowR: a flexible R package to estimate statistical power to identify spatial clustering of two groups and its application

Cancer epidemiology studies require sufficient power to assess spatial relationships between exposures and cancer incidence accurately. However, methods for power calculations of spatial statistics are complic...

Ian D. Buller, Derek W. Brown… in International Journal of Health Geographics (2021)

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

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00786-2.

David V. Conti, Burcu F. Darst, Lilit C. Moss, Edward J. Saunders… in Nature Genetics (2021)