Genetic Variants Related to Longer Telomere Length are Associated with Increased Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Mitchell J Machiela; Jonathan N Hofmann; Robert Carreras-Torres; Kevin M Brown; Mattias Johansson; Zhaoming Wang; Matthieu Foll; Peng Li; Nathaniel Rothman; Sharon A Savage; Valerie Gaborieau; James D Mckay; Yuanqing Ye; Marc Henrion; Fiona Bruinsma; Susan Jordan; Gianluca Severi; Kristian Hveem; Lars J Vatten; Tony Fletcher; Kvetoslava Koppova; Susanna C Larsson; Alicja Wolk; Rosamonde E Banks; Peter J Selby; Douglas F Easton; Paul Pharoah; Gabriella Andreotti; Laura E Beane Freeman; Stella Koutros; Demetrius Albanes; Satu Mannisto; Stephanie Weinstein; Peter E Clark; Todd E Edwards; Loren Lipworth; Susan M Gapstur; Victoria L Stevens; Hallie Carol; Matthew L Freedman; Mark M Pomerantz; Eunyoung Cho; Peter Kraft; Mark A Preston; Kathryn M Wilson; J Michael Gaziano; Howard S Sesso; Amanda Black; Neal D Freedman; Wen-Yi Huang; John G Anema; Richard J Kahnoski; Brian R Lane; Sabrina L Noyes; David Petillo; Leandro M Colli; Joshua N Sampson; Celine Besse; Helene Blanche; Anne Boland; Laurie Burdette; Egor Prokhortchouk; Konstantin G Skryabin; Meredith Yeager; Mirjana Mijuskovic; Miodrag Ognjanovic; Lenka Foretova; Ivana Holcatova; Vladimir Janout; Dana Mates; Anush Mukeriya; Stefan Rascu; David Zaridze; Vladimir Bencko; Cezary Cybulski; Eleonora Fabianova; Viorel Jinga; Jolanta Lissowska; Jan Lubinski; Marie Navratilova; Peter Rudnai; Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska; Simone Benhamou; Geraldine Cancel-Tassin; Olivier Cussenot; H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita; Federico Canzian; Eric J Duell; Borje Ljungberg; Raviprakash T Sitaram; Ulrike Peters; Emily White; Garnet L Anderson; Lisa Johnson; Juhua Luo; Julie Buring; I-Min Lee; Wong-Ho Chow; Lee E Moore; Christopher Wood; Timothy Eisen; James Larkin; Toni K Choueiri; G Mark Lathrop; Bin Tean Teh; Jean-Francois Deleuze; Xifeng Wu; Richard S Houlstonmmm; Paul Brennan; Stephen J Chanock; Ghislaine Scelo; Mark P Purdue

Journal article

Genetic Variants Related to Longer Telomere Length are Associated with Increased Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Mitchell J Machiela, Jonathan N Hofmann, Robert Carreras-Torres, Kevin M Brown, Mattias Johansson, Zhaoming Wang, Matthieu Foll, Peng Li, Nathaniel Rothman, Sharon A Savage, Valerie Gaborieau, James D Mckay, Yuanqing Ye, Marc Henrion, Fiona Bruinsma, Susan Jordan, Gianluca Severi, Kristian Hveem, Lars J Vatten, Tony Fletcher Show all

European Urology | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2017.07.015

University of Melbourne Researchers

Gianluca Severi Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Fiona Bruinsma Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Grants

Awarded by MH CZ - DRO (MMCI)

Awarded by NIH

Awarded by US Department of Health and Human Services

Funding Acknowledgements

US Department of Health and Human Services, US National Institute of Health, US National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, Duncan Family Institute for Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute were involved in the design and conduct of the study, collection of the data, and approval of the manuscript. This study was funded by support from the following institutions: Intramural research program of the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI) in Brno was supported by MH CZ - DRO (MMCI, 00209805). MD Anderson study GWAS was supported in part by the NIH (grant R01 CA170298) and the Center for Translational and Public Health Genomics, Duncan Family Institute for Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The WHI programis funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201600018C, HHSN268201600001C, HHSN268201600002C, HHSN268201600003C, and HHSN268201600004C.