2015
Enrichment of inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer risk variants in colon expression quantitative trait loci
Hulur I, Gamazon ER, Skol AD, Xicola RM, Llor X, Onel K, Ellis NA, Kupfer SS. Enrichment of inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer risk variants in colon expression quantitative trait loci. BMC Genomics 2015, 16: 138. PMID: 25766683, PMCID: PMC4351699, DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1292-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInflammatory bowel diseaseColorectal cancerBowel diseaseSingle nucleotide polymorphismsBody mass indexType 2 diabetesHealthy African AmericansColorectal cancer risk variantsMass indexTarget genesColonic diseaseColonic samplesDiseaseNovel target geneBackgroundGenome-wide association studiesHuman colonDifferent ethnic groupsRisk variantsAfrican AmericansColonFalse discovery rateGenetic variantsNucleotide polymorphismsBiological differencesFunctional role
2010
Colorectal Cancer Susceptibility Quantitative Trait Loci in Mice as a Novel Approach to Detect Low-Penetrance Variants in Humans: A Two-Stage Case-Control Study
Fernández-Rozadilla C, Tarrío R, Clofent J, de Castro L, Brea-Fernández A, Bessa X, Abulí A, Andreu M, Jover R, Xicola R, Llor X, Castells A, Castellví-Bel S, Carracedo A, Ruiz-Ponte C, Association F. Colorectal Cancer Susceptibility Quantitative Trait Loci in Mice as a Novel Approach to Detect Low-Penetrance Variants in Humans: A Two-Stage Case-Control Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 2010, 19: 619-623. PMID: 20142256, DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-09-1175.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsQuantitative trait lociLow-penetrance variantsTrait lociSingle nucleotide polymorphismsSusceptibility quantitative trait lociMouse quantitative trait lociHuman candidate genesSyntenic regionsGene selection strategyGenetic basisCyr61 geneCandidate genesPenetrant mutationsGenesLociPolygenic modelCancer susceptibilityEarly CRC detectionColorectal cancer susceptibilityGenetic modelingCRC riskPolymorphismColorectal cancerVariantsCRC detection