Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide, with over one million
cases annually 1 . To identify genetic factors that modify disease risk, we conducted a genome-…

Background At least 75% of head and neck cancers are attributable to a combination of
cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking. A precise understanding of the independent association …

Background: The magnitude of risk conferred by the interaction between tobacco and alcohol
use on the risk of head and neck cancers is not clear because studies have used various …

We carried out a genome-wide association study of lung cancer (3,259 cases and 4,159
controls), followed by replication in 2,899 cases and 5,573 controls. Two uncorrelated disease …

… in mutation prevalence could be due to several factors, including (a) the patient population
examined, (b) tumor histopathology, (c) the ratio of tumor to normal DNA in a sample, or (d) …

… the database of the National Oncological Register [7]; for six regional registries in Romania
from the National Institute of Public Health in Bucharest (provided by co-author Dana Mates); …

Poor oral health has been reported as a risk factor in the etiology of head and neck cancer.
Data on oral health were ascertained as part of two multicenter case-control studies …

We conducted imputation to the 1000 Genomes Project of four genome-wide association
studies of lung cancer in populations of European ancestry (11,348 cases and 15,861 controls) …

… Besides, a treatment system was developed that comprised the laccase and a β-D-glucuronidase
to degrade the 17β-estradiol 3-(β-d-glucuronide), efficiently eliminating this compound …

To identify new risk variants for cutaneous basal cell carcinoma, we performed a genome-wide
association study of 16 million SNPs identified through whole-genome sequencing of …