• Assessing the role of genome-wide DNA methylation between smoking and risk of lung cancer using repeated measurements: the HUNT Study 

      Sun, Yi-Qian; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Suderman, Matthew; Min, Josine L; Battram, Thomas; Flatberg, Arnar; Beisvag, Vidar; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Guida, Florence; Jiang, Lin; Wahl, Sissel Gyrid Freim; Langhammer, Arnulf; Skorpen, Frank; Walker, Rosie M; Bretherick, Andrew D; Zeng, Yanni; Chen, Yue; Johansson, Mattias; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Relton, Caroline L; Mai, Xiao-Mei (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-17)
      <i>Background</i> - It is unclear if smoking-related DNA methylation represents a causal pathway between smoking and risk of lung cancer. We sought to identify novel smoking-related DNA methylation sites in blood, with repeated measurements, and to appraise the putative role of DNA methylation in the pathway between smoking and lung cancer development.<br><br> <i>Methods</i> - We derived a nested ...
    • Influence of common genetic variation on lung cancer risk: meta-analysis of 14 900 cases and 29 485 controls 

      Timofeeva, MN; Hung, RJ; Rafnar, T; Christiani, DC; Field, JK; Bickeboller, H; Risch, A; McKay, JD; Wang, Y; Dai, J; Gaborieau, V; McLaughlin, J; Brenner, D; Narod, SA; Caporaso, NE.; Albanes, D; Thun, M; Eisen, T; Wichmann, HE; Rosenberger, A; Han, Y; Chen, W; Zhu, D; Spitz, M; Wu, X; Pande, M; Zhao, Y; Zaridze, D; Szeszenia-Dabrowska, N; Lissowska, J; Rudnai, P; Fabianova, E; Mates, D; Bencko, V; Foretova, L; Janout, V; Krokan, Hans Einar; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skorpen, Frank; Vatten, Lars Johan; Njølstad, Inger; Chen, C; Goodman, G; Lathrop, M; Benhamou, S; Vooder, T; Valk, K; Nelis, M; Metspalu, Andres; Raji, O; Chen, Y; Gosney, J; Liloglou, T; Muley, T; Dienemann, H; Thorleifsson, G; Shen, H.; Stefansson, Kari; Brennan, Paul; Amos, CI; Houlston, Richard; Landi, MT (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified common genetic variants at 5p15.33, 6p21–6p22 and 15q25.1 associated with lung cancer risk. Several other genetic regions including variants of CHEK2 (22q12), TP53BP1 (15q15) and RAD52 (12p13) have been demonstrated to influence lung cancer risk in candidate- or pathway-based analyses. To identify novel risk variants for lung cancer, we ...