Epidemiology of lung cancer

KC Thandra, A Barsouk, K Saginala, JS Aluru… - Contemporary …, 2021 - termedia.pl
Lung cancer is the leading cause of global cancer incidence and mortality, accounting for an
estimated 2 million diagnoses and 1.8 million deaths. Neoplasms of the lungs are the …

A brief history of human disease genetics

M Claussnitzer, JH Cho, R Collins, NJ Cox… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence
biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of cannabis use disorder yields insight into disease biology and public health implications

DF Levey, M Galimberti, JD Deak, FR Wendt… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
As recreational use of cannabis is being decriminalized in many places and medical use
widely sanctioned, there are growing concerns about increases in cannabis use disorder …

[HTML][HTML] The epidemiology of lung cancer

PM de Groot, CC Wu, BW Carter… - … lung cancer research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The incidence and mortality from lung cancer is decreasing in the US due to decades of
public education and tobacco control policies, but are increasing elsewhere in the world …

The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes

A Kong, G Thorleifsson, ML Frigge, BJ Vilhjalmsson… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Sequence variants in the parental genomes that are not transmitted to a child (the proband)
are often ignored in genetic studies. Here we show that nontransmitted alleles can affect a …

[HTML][HTML] Non-small cell lung cancer: current treatment and future advances

C Zappa, SA Mousa - Translational lung cancer research, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lung cancer has a poor prognosis; over half of people diagnosed with lung cancer die
within one year of diagnosis and the 5-year survival is less than 18%. Non-small cell lung …

Lung cancer screening, version 3.2018, NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology

DE Wood, EA Kazerooni, SL Baum, GA Eapen… - Journal of the National …, 2018 - jnccn.org
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States and
worldwide. Early detection of lung cancer is an important opportunity for decreasing …

Evidence for causal effects of lifetime smoking on risk for depression and schizophrenia: a Mendelian randomisation study

RE Wootton, RC Richmond, BG Stuijfzand… - Psychological …, 2020 - cambridge.org
BackgroundSmoking prevalence is higher amongst individuals with schizophrenia and
depression compared with the general population. Mendelian randomisation (MR) can …

Systematic integration of biomedical knowledge prioritizes drugs for repurposing

DS Himmelstein, A Lizee, C Hessler, L Brueggeman… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The ability to computationally predict whether a compound treats a disease would improve
the economy and success rate of drug approval. This study describes Project Rephetio to …

Genome-wide association studies of cancer: current insights and future perspectives

A Sud, B Kinnersley, RS Houlston - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide an agnostic approach for investigating
the genetic basis of complex diseases. In oncology, GWAS of nearly all common …