Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci (original) (raw)
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In the AOP version of this Article, Kristy Driver was omitted from The SEARCH collaborators. This and the Supplementary Information acknowledgements have now been corrected for both print and online publication on 28 June 2007.
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank the women who took part in this research, and all the funders and support staff who made this study possible. The principal funding for this study was provided by Cancer Research UK. Detailed acknowledgements are provided in Supplementary Information.
Author Contributions D.F.E., A.M.D., P.D.P.P., D.R.C. and B.A.J.P. designed the study and obtained financial support. D.G.B. and D.R.C. directed the genotyping of stages 1 and 2. D.F.E. and D.T. conducted the statistical analysis. K.A.P. and A.M.D. coordinated the genotyping for stage 3 and the fine-scale mapping of the FGFR2 and TNRC9 loci. J.P.S. and J.Z. performed resequencing and analysis of the FGFR2 locus. K.A.P., S.A., C.S.H., R.B., C.A.H., L.K.K., B.E.H., L.L.M., P.B., S.S., V.G., F.O., C-Y. S., P-E.W. and H-C.W. conducted genotyping for the fine-scale mapping. R.L., J.M., H.F. and K.B.M. provided bioinformatics support. D.E., D.G.E., J.P., O.F., N.J., S.S., M.R.S. and N.R. coordinated the studies used in stage 1. N.W. and N.E.D. coordinated the EPIC study used in stages 1 and 2. The remaining authors coordinated the studies in stage 3 and undertook genotyping in those studies. D.F.E. drafted the manuscript, with substantial contributions from K.A.P., A.M.D., P.D.P.P. and B.A.J.P. All authors contributed to the final paper.
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia.
- Insitute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Kuopio, Kuopio FIN‐70210, Finland.
- Departments of Oncology and Pathology, University Hospital of Kuopio, Kuopio FIN‐70211, Finland.
- Department of Oncology, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa 65130, Finland.
- Lists of consortia participants and affiliations appear after author affiliations.
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Douglas F. Easton & Deborah Thompson - Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.,
Karen A. Pooley, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Jonathan Morrison, Helen Field, Shahana Ahmed & Catherine S. Healey - Perlegen Sciences, Inc., 2021 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA.,
Dennis G. Ballinger - Laboratory of Population Genetics, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.,
Jeffery P. Struewing & Jinghui Zhang - Department of Public Health and Primary Care, EPIC, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.,
Robert Luben & Nicholas Wareham - MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK.,
Richard Bowman - Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK.,
Kerstin B. Meyer - Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA.,
Christopher A. Haiman & Brian E. Henderson - Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA.,
Laurence K. Kolonel & Loic Le Marchand - International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, Lyon 69008, France.,
Paul Brennan, Valerie Gaborieau & Fabrice Odefrey - National Cancer Institute, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.,
Suleeporn Sangrajrang - Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.,
Chen-Yang Shen, Pei-Ei Wu & Hui-Chun Wang - Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton SO16 5YA, UK.,
Diana Eccles - Regional Genetic Service, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester M13 0JH, UK.,
D. Gareth Evans - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK, and Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK.,
Julian Peto - Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, London SW3 6JB, UK.,
Olivia Fletcher & Nichola Johnson - Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK.,
Sheila Seal, Michael R. Stratton & Nazneen Rahman - Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.,
Michael R. Stratton - Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia.,
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Stig E. Bojesen & Børge G. Nordestgaard - Breast Surgery, Herlev and Bispebjerg University Hospitals, University of Copenhagen, DK‐2730 Herlev, Denmark.,
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Gelareh Farshid - Family Cancer Clinic, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.,
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Michael Field - Department of Haematology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042, Australia.,
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Easton, D., Pooley, K., Dunning, A. et al. Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci.Nature 447, 1087–1093 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05887
- Received: 09 February 2007
- Revised: 30 April 2007
- Accepted: 27 May 2007
- Published: 28 June 2007
- Issue Date: 28 June 2007
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05887