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W. Zheng

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The global cardiovascular risk transition: associations of four metabolic risk factors with national income, urbanization, and Western diet in 1980 a…

2013

Background— It is commonly assumed that cardiovascular disease risk factors are associated with affluence and Westernization. We investigated the associations of body mass index (BMI), fasting plasma glucose, systolic blood pressure, and serum total cholesterol with national income, Western diet, and, for BMI, urbanization in 1980 and 2008. Methods and Results— Country-level risk factor estimates for 199 countries between 1980 and 2008 were from a previous systematic analysis of population-based data. We analyzed the associations between risk factors and per capita national income, a measure of Western diet, and, for BMI, the percentage of the population living in urban areas. In 1980, the…

GerontologyAdultMaleRiskmedicine.medical_specialtySettore MED/09 - Medicina InternaMeasures of national income and outputPopulationHypercholesterolemiaOBESIDADEBlood PressureGlobal HealthBody Mass IndexAge DistributionRisk Factorscardiovascular diseasePhysiology (medical)Diabetes mellitus* risk factorsEpidemiologymedicineDiabetes MellitusHumansObesityRisk factorSex DistributioneducationDeveloping CountriesCholesteroloeducation.field_of_studyObesity; Cholesterolo; Blood Pressurebusiness.industryUrbanizationRisk; * risk factors; cardiovascular diseaseFeeding BehaviorMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseObesityBlood pressureCholesterolSocioeconomic FactorsCardiovascular DiseasesHypertensionWestern WorldFemaleCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinebusinessBody mass indexDemography
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Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

2013

Journal article Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Common variants at 27 loci have been identified as associated with susceptibility to breast cancer, and these account for ~9% of the familial risk of the disease. We report here a meta-analysis of 9 genome-wide association studies, including 10,052 breast cancer cases and 12,575 controls of European ancestry, from which we selected 29,807 SNPs for further genotyping. These SNPs were genotyped in 45,290 cases and 41,880 controls of European ancestry from 41 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). The SNPs were genotyped as part of a collaborative genotyping experiment involving four consortia (Collaborat…

signaling pathwayGenotypingGenotypeSingle-nucleotide polymorphismGenome-wide association studyBreast NeoplasmsconsortiumBiologyBreast Neoplasms; Case-Control Studies; Cooperative Behavior; Female; Gene-Environment Interaction; Genetic Loci; Genome-Wide Association Study; Genotype; Humans; Meta-Analysis as Topic; Polymorphism Single Nucleotide; Risk Factors; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; GeneticsPolymorphism Single NucleotideArticle03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineBreast cancerSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingMeta-Analysis as TopicRisk FactorsGenotypecommon variantsexpressionGeneticsmedicineHumansGenetic Predisposition to DiseasePolymorphismCooperative BehaviorgeneGenotypinghormone-related protein030304 developmental biologyGenetic associationGenetics0303 health sciencesBreast cancer susceptibilityCancerSingle Nucleotidemedicine.diseaseconfer susceptibilitysusceptibility loci3. Good health14q24.1 rad51l1TOX3Genetic Loci030220 oncology & carcinogenesisCase-Control Studiesgenome-wide associationFemaleGene-Environment InteractionGenome-Wide Association Study
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Identification and characterization of novel associations in the CASP8/ALS2CR12 region on chromosome 2 with breast cancer risk.

2014

Previous studies have suggested that polymorphisms in CASP8 on chromosome 2 are associated with breast cancer risk. To clarify the role of CASP8 in breast cancer susceptibility, we carried out dense genotyping of this region in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning a 1 Mb region around CASP8 were genotyped in 46 450 breast cancer cases and 42 600 controls of European origin from 41 studies participating in the BCAC as part of a custom genotyping array experiment (iCOGS). Missing genotypes and SNPs were imputed and, after quality exclusions, 501 typed and 1232 imputed SNPs were included in logistic regressionmodels adjusting for stud…

Genotyping TechniquesResearch Support U.S. Gov't P.H.S.CASP8 and FADD-Like Apoptosis Regulating ProteinGenome-wide association studyP.H.S.Medical and Health SciencesBreast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility (BOCS) StudyMedizinische FakultätGenetics(clinical)Non-U.S. Gov'tGenetics (clinical)GeneticsGenetics & HeredityvariantsCaspase 8Research Support Non-U.S. Gov'tAssociation Studies ArticlesGeneral MedicineBiological Sciencesddc:Chromosomes Human Pair 2kConFab InvestigatorsFemaleGENICA NetworkAustralian Ovarian Cancer Study GroupEuropean Continental Ancestry GroupNon-P.H.S.Single-nucleotide polymorphismBreast Neoplasms-BiologyResearch SupportPolymorphism Single NucleotideWhite PeopleN.I.H.Breast cancerResearch Support N.I.H. ExtramuralSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingmedicineGeneticsJournal ArticleHumansGenetic Predisposition to Diseaseddc:610geneGenotyping TechniquesGenotypingMolecular BiologyGenetic associationdiseaseExtramuralProteinsOdds ratiomedicine.diseasesusceptibility lociMinor allele frequencyCase-Control Studiesgenome-wide associationenhancersU.S. Gov'tcasp8Research Support U.S. Gov't Non-P.H.S.Genome-Wide Association Study
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