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A Meta-analysis of Multiple Myeloma Risk Regions in African and European Ancestry Populations Identifies Putatively Functional Loci.
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- A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of multiple myeloma among men and women of African ancestry.Blood advances · 2020Pooled it
- Identification of multiple risk loci and regulatory mechanisms influencing susceptibility to multiple myeloma.Nature communications · 2018Pooled it
- Genetic architecture of multiple myeloma: From somatic alterations to germline susceptibility and clinical implications.Translational oncology · 2026Review
- Social Determinants of Health Associated with Multiple Myeloma Incidence and Survival among a Low-Income Cohort in the Southeastern U.S.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Neighborhood disadvantage and multiple myeloma incidence in the Black Women's Health Study.International journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Influence of structural racism on cancer health disparities: Tailoring measures relevant to multiple myeloma.Cancer · 2024Article
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- A pleiotropic variant in DNAJB4 is associated with multiple myeloma risk.International journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Distinct germline genetic susceptibility profiles identified for common non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes.Leukemia · 2022Article
- Current perspectives on interethnic variability in multiple myeloma: Single cell technology, population pharmacogenetics and molecular signal transduction.Translational oncology · 2022Article
- TNFRSF13B is a potential contributor to prostate cancer.Cancer cell international · 2022Article
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- Metabolic Disorders in Multiple Myeloma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Variability in Cytogenetic Testing for Multiple Myeloma: A Comprehensive Analysis From Across the United States.JCO oncology practice · 2020Article
- Coinherited genetics of multiple myeloma and its precursor, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.Blood advances · 2020Article
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- Germline Risk Contribution to Genomic Instability in Multiple Myeloma.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
- Germline Lysine-Specific Demethylase 1 (Cancer research · 2018Article
- Genome-Wide Association Studies of Cancer in Diverse Populations.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) in European populations have identified genetic risk variants associated with multiple myeloma.
methodsWe performed association testing of common variation in eight regions in 1,318 patients with multiple myeloma and 1,480 controls of European ancestry and 1,305 patients with multiple myeloma and 7,078 controls of African ancestry and conducted a meta-analysis to localize the signals, with epigenetic annotation used to predict functionality.
resultsWe found that variants in 7p15.3, 17p11.2, 22q13.1 were statistically significantly (P < 0.05) associated with multiple myeloma risk in persons of African ancestry and persons of European ancestry, and the variant in 3p22.1 was associated in European ancestry only. In a combined African ancestry-European ancestry meta-analysis, variation in five regions (2p23.3, 3p22.1, 7p15.3, 17p11.2, 22q13.1) was statistically significantly associated with multiple myeloma risk. In 3p22.1, the correlated variants clustered within the gene body of ULK4 Correlated variants in 7p15.3 clustered around an enhancer at the 3' end of the CDCA7L transcription termination site. A missense variant at 17p11.2 (rs34562254, Pro251Leu, OR, 1.32; P = 2.93 × 10 IMPACT: A subset of reported risk loci for multiple myeloma has consistent effects across populations and is likely to be functional. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 25(12); 1609-18. ©2016 AACR.
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