Search Results - "TYRER, Jonathan"
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Improving on polygenic scores across complex traits using select and shrink with summary statistics (S4) and LDpred2
Published in BMC genomics (18-09-2024)“…As precision medicine advances, polygenic scores (PGS) have become increasingly important for clinical risk assessment. Many methods have been developed to…”
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A breast cancer prediction model incorporating familial and personal risk factors
Published in Statistics in medicine (15-04-2004)“…An Erratum has been published for this article in Statistics in Medicine 2005; 24(1):156. Please note that the corresponding author's e‐mail address has now…”
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Exome sequencing identifies breast cancer susceptibility genes and defines the contribution of coding variants to breast cancer risk
Published in Nature genetics (01-09-2023)“…Linkage and candidate gene studies have identified several breast cancer susceptibility genes, but the overall contribution of coding variation to breast…”
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Folate Intake and Ovarian Cancer Risk among Women with Endometriosis: A Case-Control Study from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium
Published in Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention (01-08-2023)“…Although folate intake has not been associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer overall, studies of other cancer types have suggested that high folate…”
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Tunnelling with Full-Face Shielded Machines: A 3D Numerical Analysis of an Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Excavation Sequence Using the Finite Element Method (FEM)
Published in Geosciences (Basel) (01-08-2023)“…Urban tunnelling can be highly challenging, especially in areas where limited ground settlements and environmental disturbance is required. Mechanised…”
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The contribution of deleterious germline mutations in BRCA1, BRCA2 and the mismatch repair genes to ovarian cancer in the population
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-09-2014)“…The aim of this study was to estimate the contribution of deleterious mutations in BRCA1, BRCA2, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2 to invasive epithelial ovarian…”
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A genome-wide association scan (GWAS) for mean telomere length within the COGS project: identified loci show little association with hormone-related cancer risk
Published in Human molecular genetics (15-12-2013)“…Mean telomere length (TL) in blood cells is heritable and has been reported to be associated with risks of several diseases, including cancer. We conducted a…”
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Genomic risk prediction of coronary artery disease in women with breast cancer: a prospective cohort study
Published in Breast cancer research : BCR (30-09-2021)“…Advancements in cancer therapeutics have resulted in increases in cancer-related survival; however, there is a growing clinical dilemma. The current balancing…”
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Independent validation of genes and polymorphisms reported to be associated with radiation toxicity: a prospective analysis study
Published in The lancet oncology (2012)“…Summary Background Several studies have reported associations between radiation toxicity and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in candidate genes. Few…”
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Telomere length in prospective and retrospective cancer case-control studies
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-04-2010)“…Previous studies have reported that shorter mean telomere length in lymphocytes was associated with increased susceptibility to common diseases of aging, and…”
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The admixture maximum likelihood test to test for association between rare variants and disease phenotypes
Published in BMC bioinformatics (06-06-2013)“…The development of genotyping arrays containing hundreds of thousands of rare variants across the genome and advances in high-throughput sequencing…”
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Evidence of a genetic link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer
Published in Fertility and sterility (01-01-2016)“…Objective To evaluate whether endometriosis-associated genetic variation affects risk of ovarian cancer. Design Pooled genetic analysis. Setting University…”
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Robust Tests for Additive Gene-Environment Interaction in Case-Control Studies Using Gene-Environment Independence
Published in American journal of epidemiology (01-02-2018)“…Abstract There have been recent proposals advocating the use of additive gene-environment interaction instead of the widely used multiplicative scale, as a…”
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FGFR2 variants and breast cancer risk: fine-scale mapping using African American studies and analysis of chromatin conformation
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-05-2009)“…Genome-wide association studies have identified FGFR2 as a breast cancer (BC) susceptibility gene in populations of European and Asian descent, but a causative…”
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Evaluating the power to discriminate between highly correlated SNPs in genetic association studies
Published in Genetic epidemiology (01-07-2010)“…Neighboring common polymorphisms are often correlated (in linkage disequilibrium (LD)) as a result of shared ancestry. An association between a polymorphism…”
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Association between common variation in 120 candidate genes and breast cancer risk
Published in PLoS genetics (01-03-2007)“…Association studies in candidate genes have been widely used to search for common low penetrance susceptibility alleles, but few definite associations have…”
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Common Polymorphisms in the Prostaglandin Pathway Genes and Their Association with Breast Cancer Susceptibility and Survival
Published in Clinical cancer research (15-03-2009)“…Purpose: There is evidence that genetic variation in the prostaglandin pathway affects cancer susceptibility and progression. Conflicting data from several…”
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Estimating the effect of treatment in a proportional hazards model in the presence of non-compliance and contamination
Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology (01-09-2007)“…Methods for adjusting for non-compliance and contamination, which respect the randomization, are extended from binary outcomes to time-to-event analyses by…”
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ABO blood group and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer within the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium
Published in Cancer causes & control (01-11-2012)“…Purpose: Previous studies have examined the association between ABO blood group and ovarian cancer risk, with inconclusive results. Methods: In eight studies…”
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Association of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the cell cycle genes with breast cancer in the British population
Published in Carcinogenesis (New York) (01-02-2008)“…Using a large-scale case–control study, we examined whether common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within 13 genes involved in the cell cycle pathway…”
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