Immunotherapy for colorectal cancer: insight from inherited genetics

NP Tjader, AE Toland - Trends in Cancer, 2024 - cell.com
Immunotherapy shows efficacy for multiple cancer types and potential for expanded use.
However, current immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are ineffective against microsatellite …

Small molecule tractable PARP inhibitors: Scaffold construction approaches, mechanistic insights and structure activity relationship

A Thakur, M Rana, J Mathew, S Nepali, CH Pan… - Bioorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diverse drug design strategies viz. molecular hybridization, substituent installation, scaffold
hopping, isosteric replacement, high-throughput screening, induction and separation of …

[HTML][HTML] Proteogenomic analysis of human cerebrospinal fluid identifies neurologically relevant regulation and informs causal proteins for Alzheimer's disease

C Cruchaga, D Western, J Timsina, L Wang… - Research …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The integration of quantitative trait loci (QTL) with disease genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) has proven successful at prioritizing candidate genes at disease-associated loci …

CustOmics: A versatile deep-learning based strategy for multi-omics integration

H Benkirane, Y Pradat, S Michiels… - PLoS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The availability of patient cohorts with several types of omics data opens new perspectives
for exploring the disease's underlying biological processes and developing predictive …

Fine-mapping analysis including over 254,000 East Asian and European descendants identifies 136 putative colorectal cancer susceptibility genes

Z Chen, X Guo, R Tao, JR Huyghe, PJ Law… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 200 common genetic
variants independently associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, but the causal variants …

Plasma metabolites and risk of seven cancers: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study among European descendants

Y Chen, Y Xie, H Ci, Z Cheng, Y Kuang, S Li, G Wang… - BMC medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background While circulating metabolites have been increasingly linked to cancer risk, the
causality underlying these associations remains largely uninterrogated. Methods We …

Novel insights into genetic susceptibility for colorectal cancer from transcriptome-wide association and functional investigation

Z Chen, W Song, XO Shu, W Wen… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Transcriptome-wide association studies have been successful in identifying
candidate susceptibility genes for colorectal cancer (CRC). To strengthen susceptibility gene …

Exploring potential causal associations between autoimmune diseases and colorectal cancer using bidirectional Mendelian randomization

L Chen, F Wang, H Zhang, B Cao - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
Several observational studies have revealed an association between autoimmune diseases
(AIDs) and colorectal cancer (CRC), although their causal association remained …

Utilizing human genetics to develop chemoprevention for cancer—too good an opportunity to be missed

U Peters, I Tomlinson - Cancer Prevention Research, 2024 - AACR
Large-scale genetic studies are reliably identifying many risk factors for disease in the
general population. Several of these genetic risk factors encode potential drug targets, and …

Genome-wide polygenic risk scores for colorectal cancer have implications for risk-based screening

M Tamlander, B Jermy, TT Seppälä, M Färkkilä… - British journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Hereditary factors, including single genetic variants and family history, can be
used for targeting colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, but limited data exist on the impact of …