GWAS meta-analysis of 16 852 women identifies new susceptibility locus for endometrial cancer

Affiliations

• ¹ Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
• ² Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia.
• ³ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.
• ⁴ Hunter Medical Research Institute, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW 2305, Australia.
• ⁵ School of Medicine and Public Health, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia.
• ⁶ Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
• ⁷ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
• ⁸ Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.
• ⁹ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
• ¹⁰ Division of Cancer Care, Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ¹¹ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
• ¹² Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Cancer Control Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ¹⁴ Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
• ¹⁵ Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
• ¹⁶ University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Clinical Genetics, St George's, University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK.
• ¹⁹ Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, CA 94538, USA.
• ²⁰ University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
• ²¹ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
• ²² Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.
• ²³ Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN 27232, USA.
• ²⁴ Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
• ²⁵ H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
• ²⁶ Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
• ²⁷ Center for Cancer Prevention (CPO-Piemonte), Turin, Italy.
• ²⁸ Human Genetic Foundation (HuGeF), Turin, Italy.
• ²⁹ Hunter Area Pathology Service, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW 2305, Australia.
• ³⁰ School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia.
• ³¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA 19024, USA.
• ³² Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China and.
• ³³ Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.
• ³⁴ Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA, nhidv@channing.harvard.edu.