Genome-wide association study of classical Hodgkin lymphoma identifies key regulators of disease susceptibility

Classical Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer that originates in lymph nodes. Little is known about its genetic susceptibility. Here, the authors combined existing and new genome-wide association studies to identify risk loci for classical Hodgkin lymphoma at 6q22.33, and nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma...

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Main Authors: Amit Sud, Hauke Thomsen, Philip J. Law, Asta Försti, Miguel Inacio da Silva Filho, Amy Holroyd, Peter Broderick, Giulia Orlando, Oleg Lenive, Lauren Wright, Rosie Cooke, Douglas Easton, Paul Pharoah, Alison Dunning, Julian Peto, Federico Canzian, Rosalind Eeles, ZSofia Kote-Jarai, Kenneth Muir, Nora Pashayan, The PRACTICAL consortium, Per Hoffmann, Markus M. Nöthen, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Elke Pogge von Strandmann, Tracy Lightfoot, Eleanor Kane, Eve Roman, Annette Lake, Dorothy Montgomery, Ruth F. Jarrett, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Andreas Engert, Nick Orr, Kari Hemminki, Richard S. Houlston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00320-1