Hemochromatosis risk genotype is not associated with colorectal cancer or age at its diagnosis

Hemochromatosis risk genotype is not associated with colorectal cancer or age at its diagnosis

Summary: Homozygotes for the higher penetrance hemochromatosis risk allele, HFE c.845G>A (p.Cys282Tyr, or C282Y), have been reported to be at a 2- to 3-fold increased risk for colorectal cancer (CRC). These results have been reported for small sample size studies with no information about age at...

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Main Authors: Gail P. Jarvik, Xiaoliang Wang, Pierre Fontanillas, Esther Kim, Sirisak Chanprasert, Adam S. Gordon, Lisa Bastarache, Kris V. Kowdley, Tabitha Harrison, Elisabeth A. Rosenthal, Ian B. Stanaway, Stéphane Bézieau, Stephanie J. Weinstein, Polly A. Newcomb, Graham Casey, Elizabeth A. Platz, Kala Visvanathan, Loic Le Marchand, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Sheetal Hardikar, Christopher I. Li, Franzel J.B. van Duijnhoven, Andrea Gsur, Peter T. Campbell, Victor Moreno, Pavel Vodička, Hermann Brenner, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Hoffmeister, Martha L. Slattery, Marc J. Gunter, Elom K. Aglago, Sergi Castellví-Bel, Sun-Seog Kweon, Andrew T. Chan, Li Li, Wei Zheng, D. Timothy Bishop, Graham G. Giles, Gad Rennert, Kenneth Offit, Temitope O. Keku, Michael O. Woods, Jochen Hampe, Bethan Van Guelpen, Steven J. Gallinger, Albert de la Chapelle, Heather Hampel, Sonja I. Berndt, Catherine M. Tangen, Annika Lindblom, Alicja Wolk, Andrea Burnett-Hartman, Anna H. Wu, Emily White, Stephen B. Gruber, Mark A. Jenkins, Joanna Mountain, Ulrike Peters, David R. Crosslin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:HGG Advances
Subjects:
iron
ferritin
population screening
age of onset
colon cancer
genetic
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666247720300105

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